Democratic legitimacy and the European Citizens' Initiative : a recipe for disappointment and disaffection?

The European Union has long been argued to suffer from a deficit of democratic legitimacy. One recent innovation introduced with the intention of addressing this deficit is the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), a means by which 1 million EU citizens can ask the European Commission to propose new...

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Main Author: Hatton, Lucy
Published: University of Warwick 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704111