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Competing Models of EU Legitimacy: the Test of Popular Expectations*
Author(s) -
EHIN PIRET
Publication year - 2008
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.1468-5965.2008.00794.x
Subject(s) - legitimacy , eurobarometer , democratic legitimacy , political science , adjudication , politics , test (biology) , european union , democracy , state (computer science) , political economy , law , economics , international economics , mathematics , paleontology , algorithm , biology
What are the appropriate criteria for assessing the legitimacy of the EU? This article uses data from the Eurobarometer to adjudicate between rival perspectives on EU legitimacy. The findings strengthen the case for holding the EU to the same liberal‐democratic standard of legitimacy that is applied to political authority in the nation‐state.