Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an
original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a …

Advocates of demoicracy dismiss the proposal to transform the EU into a supranational
democracy on the grounds that there is no pan‐European demos. This article examines …

The way one evaluates leadership selection in the European Union very much depends on
how one sees the EU as a polity and the kind of democratic standards that polity is to meet …

Income redistribution and insurance are core functions of welfare states. What role should
the EU play in this domain? I examine the purchase of normative theorizing on social justice …

This article suggests that we need to rethink the legitimacy of EU referenda by considering
them as democratic games with different groups of players, levels and rounds. Unlike most …

The democratic management of macroeconomic externalities between Members of the
Economic and Monetary Union requires abandoning the legal entrenchment of fiscal rules …

In the aftermath of the Euro-crisis, refugee crisis and Brexit, Europe's finalité politique once
again became a topic of heated debate. Both Eurosceptic nationalists and defenders of the …

Abstract The European Union remains an ambivalent polity. This uncertainty complicates the
assessment of its democratic and federal quality. Drawing on comparative federalism …

In the post-Maastricht era, member states of the European Union (EU) have proved
increasingly reluctant to transfer further competences to the supranational level and are …

The prospect of a Brexit illustrates that the European Union's legitimacy deficit can have far-
reaching political consequences. In normative political theory, realists take a keen interest in …