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When viewed with the conventional lenses of the separation of powers in national Western political systems, the Commission is an anomaly. It is neither an executor of government policy nor a government accountable to a parliament. It is clear that both its formal and informal roles warrant discussion in terms of democratic theory.
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Matláry, J.H. (1998). Democratic Legitimacy and the Role of the Commission. In: Føllesdal, A., Koslowski, P. (eds) Democracy and the European Union. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03622-8_4
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