Democraticity

[…] it believes national democracy to be the standard of assessment for the democraticity of the European Union.

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It is not that there is more or less democracy on a local or transnational level but that there are different criteria to assess democraticity depending on the institutional level at which we find ourselves.

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In my view, “democraticity” and legitimacy are thus two analytically distinct properties, such that a regime or representative may be democratically legitimate (popularly endorsed if you will) even as they are not democratic per se.

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