Legitimacy and the European Union
Banchoff, Thomas / Smith, Mitchell![Legitimacy and the European Union](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/141/1414210/CHSBZCOP031414210.jpg)
This study addresses the problem of EU legitimacy, integrating existing work on the "democratic deficit" with emergent literature on the EU as a new kind of polity. It argues that existing approaches to the legitimacy crisis are rooted in statist categories that poorly fit EU reality.