#Working Papers
10_03_2021
Claudia Sternberg: “Ideologies and imaginaries of legitimacy from the 1950s to today”
This chapter traces changes in EU-official discourse around EU legitimacy since the 1950s, relating them to the trajectory described by Pierre Rosanvallon in Democratic Legitimacy (2011a). Accordingly, the legitimacy of modern democracies broke down in the 1980s owing to a loss of faith in its two main foundations in elections…