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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik
Author(s) -
FOLLESDAL ANDREAS,
HIX SIMON
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00650.x
Subject(s) - polity , democracy , democratic deficit , element (criminal law) , politics , political science , political economy , law and economics , law , economics
Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have argued that the EU does not suffer a ‘democratic deficit’. We disagree about one key element: whether a democratic polity requires contestation for political leadership and over policy. This aspect is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest’ theories of democracy, yet is conspicuously absent in the EU.