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Is there a democratic deficit in the EU?

SIMON HIX London School of Economics Why There is a Democratic De?cit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik Abstract Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have argued that the EU does not suffer a ‘democratic de?cit’. We disagree about one key element: whether a democratic

What is the problem of the EU's democracy problem?

A bigger problem, however, is the lack of a connection between the growing democratic politics inside the European Parliament and EU Council and the views of the public. The parties in the European Parliament and the

Is the EU a democratic system?

chologically, the EU is too different from the domestic democratic institutions that citizens are used to. As a result, citizens cannot understand the EU, and so will never be able to assess and regard it as a democratic system writ large, nor to identify with it. For example, the Commission is neither a government

What is wrong with the European Union?

A bigger problem, however, is the lack of a connection between the growing democratic politics inside the European Parliament and EU Council and the views of the public. The parties in the European Parliament and the governments in the Council may well re?ect the various positions of the voters they represent on the issues at stake.