Abstract
The obsession in the European Union (EU) with the issue of whether or not it conforms to some ideal type of a liberal-democratic, representative polity believed to typify contemporary West European regimes is honorable and symptomatic of the extent to which the concept of the EU and working within it has become entrenched in the minds of government and non-government actors as well as the public in the Member States. That efforts should be undertaken to make the emergent EU polity conform to liberal, democratic practice based on open, transparent, accountable and representative (if not altogether efficient) government is laudable. It is also a response to two forces: prospective enlargement to states with totalitarian traditions; and the growth of cynicism and disaffection from political processes among the populace of the EU’s Member States.
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Lodge, J. (1997). The Emergent European Union: Democratic Legitimacy and the 1996 Inter-governmental Conference. In: Symes, V., Levy, C., Littlewood, J. (eds) The Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25379-1_14
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