Democratic deficit or demoicratic legitimacy?
towards a new conceptual framework for the EU
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2020.7.69-80Ключови думи :
European Union, democratic deficit, fallacy of false analogy, demoicracy, output legitimacyАбстракт
“Democratic deficit” is used as an umbrella concept covering a wide range of criticisms against the European Union (EU) as undemocratic or insufficiently democratic. The article reveals the logical unsustainability of the concept by demonstrating that it is a result of the so called “fallacy of false analogy”; in our case it is due to a wrong analogy between the EU and the modern democratic state (MDD). This rejection opens the debate about the necessity to create a new vocabulary for describing the functioning of the EU since the available one is deeply entrenched in the theory of the MDD. Several elements of this new conceptual framework - demoicracy, policy-politics, output legitimacy etc., - are introduced and applied.
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