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Even though complaints and uncertainties about the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU are as widely shared as the perceived need to think about institutional solutions which would remedy this condition, agreement on the actual presence of such a deficit is by no means universal. Before we address the nature of and possible solution to the problem, therefore, we need to deal briefly with views that deny either the existence of the problem or at least the availability of a solution.
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Offe, C., Preuss, U.K. (2019). The problem of legitimacy in the European polity. Is democratization the answer ? (2006). In: Staatskapazität und Europäische Integration. Ausgewählte Schriften von Claus Offe, vol 5. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22267-3_13
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