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The aim of this chapter is to present some of the central research topics found in normative political theory relating to the EU.1 Normative political theory uses methods of normative reasoning to address concepts, arguments and theories about the substantive normative standards necessary for legitimate political orders, institutions and policies. Topics covered might include ‘democracy’, ‘fairness’, ‘equality’, ‘justice’, ‘citizenship’, and ‘virtue’.
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German Constitutional Court, 1993, ‘Brunner v European Union Treaty’ BVerfGE, 89: 155.
Margaret Levi calls this ‘ethical reciprocity’, ‘a norm requiring that individuals in a given population cooperate with government demands but only as long as others are also contributing’ (1998b, 24–5).
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Føllesdal, A. (2006). EU Legitimacy and Normative Political Theory. In: Cini, M., Bourne, A.K. (eds) Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522671_9
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