%0 Journal Article
%T Assessing the legitimacy of the EU
%A Diren£¿ Kanol
%J Interdisciplinary Political Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X The Lisbon Treaty could not meet the demands of many as regards the issue of the EU¡¯s legitimacy and democratic governance. By analyzing the literature on the legitimacy of the EU, the article shows why the EU has to fulfill the legitimacy criteria of the liberal-democratic states by defining the EU as a multi-level governance polity which affects the legitimacy of the member-states. This view discards the arguments for assessing the legitimacy of the EU as of an international organization. Likewise, it rejects the views arguing that the EU is a regulatory state and its legitimacy should be assessed in terms of regulatory legitimacy. A conceptual framework is provided at the end of this article to initiate an empirical research design to measure and subsequently perhaps to increase the legitimacy of the EU.
%U http://www.idps.unisi.it/issue0/18/assessing-the-legitimacy-of-the-eu