Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Göler Daniel
    Die europäische Legitimationsfalle. Das Problem von Effizienz und Partizipation im europäischen Mehrebenensystem
    in Zeitschrift für Politik , Jahrgang 56, Heft 1, 2009 ,  2009 ,  3-18
    Summary Against the backdrop of the current EU crisis after the referenda in France, the Netherlands and Ireland this article reflects on the legitimacy problem of the European Union. It is argued that input- and output – legitimacy are provided in a particular way by the supranational and national level, which creates a specific ligitimacy problem for the EU. The present pattern of input- and output legitimation, so the hypothesis, does not correspond adequately to the current challenges. Instead, the governance structures of the European multi-level system result from path dependend developments, rooted in the beginning of integration process. In the light of the changing context and conditions for creating legitimacy these path-dependencies lead the EU into a kind of »legitimacy-trap«, from which it is hard to escape.
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