Essays about: "legitimacy deficit"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words legitimacy deficit.
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1. The European Union and its Democratic Deficit(s) : A descriptive idea-analysis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Despite the EU’s profound commitment to uphold and promote democracy, scholars have throughout the years argued that the organization suffers from two separate, although seemingly related, democratic paradoxes and deficits: one focusing on the supranational EU-level and the Union at large, one addressing the national EU-level and the member-state components of the system. Despite the shared themes and verdicts of the EU as democratically defective – little to no attention has yet been paid to elaborate on how these debates might be connected. READ MORE
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2. International Criminal Justice : An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over National’s of Non-State Parties
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : Over the years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has received criticism for exercising its territorial jurisdiction over non-state parties’ nationals. Non-state parties claim that the Court is illegitimate and that its jurisdictional claim over their nationals violates the principle of consent in public international law. READ MORE
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3. Proportionality in methodology? Identifying a methodological framework to provide acceptance and legitimacy for the CJEU
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) performs to different audiences in the pluralistic EU legal context. These different audiences demand methodological soundness in the Court’s performance. From their perspective, the judgments of the Court must appear coherent and justified. READ MORE
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4. An arena for effective opposition? : A systematic investigation into political opposition in the European Parliament
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The European Union is suffering from a legitimacy crisis, which thus far has culminated with Great Britain’s decision to exit the union. According to the ‘opposition deficit thesis’, this is caused as there is no arena in which effective opposition can be voiced in the European Union, which forces EU citizens to organise their opposition outside the political system, and often against it. READ MORE
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5. A Democratic European Union: What does it mean? A discourse analysis of two debates on the Conference on the Future of Europe in the European Parliament
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : The question of the European Union’s (EU) democratic legitimacy has been a crucial issue at all stages of the European integration process. With crises of economic, social and democratic nature, trust in the EU institutions is questioned by citizens, providing a vacuum between expectations and results and a ‘democratic deficit’. READ MORE
