No way out for the beast? The unsolved legitimacy problem of European governance

Höreth, Marcus

doi:10.1080/135017699343702

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“…Eriksen and Fossum (2004) consider the output-based strategy of legitimation not sufficient. Similarly, some authors have criticised that a democratic political system cannot achieve output-oriented legitimacy without some form of inputoriented legitimacy (Büchs, 2008;Höreth, 1999). The results of the current study indicate that the EU is legitimised based on performance in the Estonian discourse and is output-oriented (in the terms of Scharpf, 1999), thus confirm the hypothesis set above.…”

Section: Baltic Journal Of European Studies Tallinn University Of Tecsupporting

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The European Union in the Estonian Public Discourse

Vaaks

2013

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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Section: Baltic Journal Of European Studies Tallinn University Of Tecsupporting

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The European Union in the Estonian Public Discourse

Vaaks

2013

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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“…Democracy is thus linked to social conditions which cannot be created artificially by constitutional acts 11 . In this perspective, a core, and enduring, problem for the EU is one of legitimacy in the form of a lack of acceptance from nationals of one country that representatives of citizens of other countries have a formal share in their rule 12 , and which no amount of tinkering with representative institutions can resolve 13 . Another is the sheer territorial scale of the EU 14 .…”

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Organized Civil Society and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union

Greenwood

2007

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Structural limitations in models of representative democracy have enhanced the space for other mechanisms of legitimacy in the European Union, including participatory models in which organized civil society interests are significant players. To some observers, such actors are likely only to aggravate already problematic input legitimacy. A range of less hostile approaches also prevail, from a neutral standpoint through to those sharing the perspective of EU policy practice where such actors are seen as a complementary mechanism of democratic input. Whilst concerns about the impact of asymmetries of power between different types of organized civil society interests arise as potential issues in any democratic setting, a particularly vigorous neo-pluralist regime, in which EU institutions actively create and develop as well as empower citizen interest groups, effectively mitigates these asymmetries in an EU context, although it can give rise to paradoxical tensions of elitism.

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“…Only by understanding that difficulties do not arise from any one of the dimensions or levels but from their interaction, can we locate the legitimation traps and dilemmas in European integration (see also Höreth, 1999).…”

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Legitimizing the EU: Is there a ‘Post‐parliamentary Basis’ for its Legitimation?

Lord

Beetham

2001

J of Common Market Studies

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This article argues that its character as a non-state political system makes little difference to how the EU ought to be legitimated. Minimum requirements for the legitimation of the liberal democratic state (performance, democracy and identity) also hold for the legitimation of Union power, both normatively and sociologically. This constrains the application of innovative legitimation strategies to the Union, requiring that post-parliamentary solutions be recast as complements, rather than substitutes, for a system of representative politics in the European arena, if the EU is to meet the core standard of democratic rule, which we take to be public control with political equality.

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No way out for the beast? The unsolved legitimacy problem of European governance

Cited by 94 publications

References 16 publications

The European Union in the Estonian Public Discourse

The European Union in the Estonian Public Discourse

Organized Civil Society and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union

Legitimizing the EU: Is there a ‘Post‐parliamentary Basis’ for its Legitimation?

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