Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7876483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Moravcsik, Andrew M Moravcsik (0000-0003-3892-7568, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 603-624 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5965.00390 |
| OpenAlex | W2027277386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 333 |
| References cited | 7 |
Concern about the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ is misplaced. Judged against existing advanced industrial democracies, rather than an ideal plebiscitary or parliamentary democracy, the EU is legitimate. Its institutions are tightly constrained by constitutional checks and balances: narrow mandates, fiscal limits, super–majoritarian and concurrent voting requirements and separation of powers. The EU’s appearance of exceptional insulation reflects the subset of functions it performs — central banking, constitutional adjudication, civil prosecution, economic diplomacy and technical administration. These are matters of low electoral salience commonly delegated in national systems, for normatively justifiable reasons. On balance, the EU redresses rather than creates biases in political representation, deliberation and output
Adjudication · Balance (ability · Deliberation · Democracy · democratic deficit · Democratic legitimacy · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Salience (neuroscience · Separation of powers · European Monetary and Fiscal Policies · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Social Issues and Policies
Towards a European demos? On the growth of European identity and attachment
Guardians of Public Value
A Republican Europe of States
Democracy in Europe
What can we learn from the collapse of the European constitutional project?
De verspreiding van de democratie
The General Will, the Common Good, and a Democracy of Standards
Unequal Europe
European Center-Lefts and the Mazes of European Integration
The Principal–Agent Model, Accountability and Democratic Legitimacy
Being under the Power of Others
Once Again a Model
Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
Historical Decline or Change of Scale?
The Five Presidents’ Report
Citizens’ satisfaction with democracy against the backdrop of the Eurozone crisis management
Restarting convergence to reinvigorate output legitimacy
To hike or not to hike? Expert dissensus over post-Covid inflation and the ECB’s policy response
Counting Species
Legitimacy of differentiated integration in the European Union
Framing the European Green Deal
EU Responses to the Democratic Deficit and the Rule of Law Crisis
Introduction. Lost in Reflection
(How) can international trade union organisations be democratic
Programmed visibility. Tax reform legitimacy between strategic opacity and platform circulation
Czy europejska inicjatywa obywatelska może służyć zmniejszeniu deficytu demokratycznego w Unii Europejskiej? Uwagi na podstawie wniosku Minority SafePack
Brexit and labour governance
The Rise of Procedural Legitimacy of the EU under the Juncker Commission
Implementing (and radicalizing) art. I-47.4 of the Constitution
Single-issue Ratifiers or Political Deliberators
EU and crisis management
Measuring democratic legitimacy within regional organizations - a member states’ perspective
Unlock Local Forces and Improve Legitimacy
Brexit and EU Legitimation
Democratic Legitimacy, Democratisation and Democratic Identity of the European Union - Old Questions, New Challenges
Fonder From Afar
How Trickle‐Down Democracy Won the Debate, and Why It Didn’t Have To
Revisiting ECB’s Technocratic Legitimacy
When Sector Meets Territory
This is not a pipe
The liberty of the moderns
Varieties of populism and the challenges to Global Constitutionalism
The non-existence of private self-regulation in the transnational sphere and its implications for the responsibility to procure legitimacy
The principle of subsidiarity as a constitutional principle in international law
Randomizing Europe
Beyond the post-war Schumpeterian consensus
Wahn, Wahn, Überall Wahn’
The ethics of an ambiguous cosmopolitics
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics
The uses of ambiguity
The weakness of strong policies and the strength of weak policies
International diffusion of regulatory governance
Improving democratic governance through institutional design
Brexit and the Myth of British National Identity
The Nature of the European Leadership Crisis and How to Solve It
The Nation-State, European (Dis)integration, and Political Development
L'abolition symbolique du politique, de nécessité vertu
To be legitimate or not to be
Europe between Integration and Globalisation Social Differences and National Frames in the Analysis of Focus Groups Conducted in France, Francophone Belgium and the United Kingdom
Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe before and after Accession
Introduction. Lost in Reflection
Studying (De-)Politicization of the EU from a Citizens Point of View
EU Communication in the Member States
Transgovernmental networks and security policy coordination in North America and the European Union
French public opinion on the European Union’s Eastern enlargement and public-elite relations
Non-majoritarian institutions
Governing the EU financial markets
A de facto cooperation? The increasing role of the European Union in improved relations between Georgia and Turkey
Ever tighter union? Brexit, Grexit, and frustrated differentiation in the single market and Eurozone
Introduction
Why use experiments in EU studies
Contested Meanings of Transparency in Central Banking
News media representations of a common EU foreign and security policy. A cross-national content analysis of CFSP coverage in national quality newspapers
Media relations in the Council of the European Union
Balancing independence and legitimacy
Das Mantra von „mehr Europa“ als Antwort auf die Krisen
Gewaltenteilung in der EU – Problem oder Baustein demokratischer Ordnung
Musings About the EU's Constitutional Future
EU–Hamas actors in a state of permanent liminality
A Hegelian realist constructivist account of war, identity, and state formation
EU coordination of social security from the point of view of EU integration theory
Reaching the European 2030 Poverty Target
No ode to joy? Reflections on the European Union's legitimacy
Britain and the world after Brexit
La participation électorale
The new constitution as european ‘demoi‐cracy’
Toward Self-Sustaining Stability? How the Constitutional Treaty Would Enhance Forms of Institutional and National Balance
Conclusions
Voluntary association, not state consent
The role of national parliaments and European Parliament as guardians of European values
Europeanization, democratic deficit and the constitutional debate in Estonia
The Early Warning System
The European Telecommunication Standards Institute (Etsi)
Habermas, law and European social policy
Towards a stable finalité with federal features? The balancing acts of the Constitutional Treaty for Europe
How to federalize the European Union … and why bother
Introduction
Authority, politicization, and alternative justifications
Democratic accountability and the exchange-rate policy of the euro area 1
Ideational power and pathways to legitimation in the euro crisis
Crisis and choice in European social democracy
Establishing the Supremacy of European Law
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
The future of the European “social model” in the global economy
National Interests, State Power, and EU Enlargement
Despotism in Brussels? Misreading the European Union
The End of Creeping Competence? EU Policy‐Making Since Maastricht
| Unique citing works | 333 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,48 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 331 |