Демократичен дефицит или демоикратична легитимност? Към нова понятийна рамка на Европейския съюз
Democratic Deficit or Demoicratic Legitimacy? Towards A New Conceptual Framework for the EU

Author(s): Svetoslav Malinov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Government/Political systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: European Union; Democratic Deficit; Fallacy of False Analogy; Demoicracy; Output Legitimacy
Summary/Abstract: „Democratic deficit” is used as an umbrella concept covering a wide range of criticisms against the European Union (EU) as undemocratic or insufficiently democratic. The article reveals the logical unsustainability of the concept by demonstrating that it is a result of the so called “fallacy of false analogy”; in our case it is due to a wrong analogy between the EU and the modern democratic state (MDD). This rejection opens the debate about the necessity to create a new vocabulary for describing the functioning of the EU since the available one is deeply entrenched in the theory of the MDD. Several elements of this new conceptual framework -- demoicracy, policy-politics, output legitimacy etc., -- are introduced and applied.

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