In Pursuit of Democratic Legitimacy? Niklas Luhmann and the European Parliament Elections of 2014

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,3, Queen's University Belfast (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy), language: English, abstract: This thesis analyses the European Parliament elections of 2014 through the lens of Niklas Luhmann's theory of legitimacy. These elections differed from earlier ones due to the introduction...