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Does the European Union suffer from a democratic deficit?* The answer clearly depends on what exactly counts as a “democratic deficit”, and hence also on what counts as “democracy”.
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Parus, P.V. (1998). Should the European Union Become More Democratic?. 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_14
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