Legitimacy, Regulation, and Representation Beyond the EU Core

Abstract

This panel addresses EU policymaking and legitimacy beyond the traditional institutional core, focusing on regulatory expansion, external governance, and contested representation. The contributions analyse intersectional barriers in EU policy processes, pre-accession assistance as a form of external policy-making, shifting centres of political voice beyond Brussels, the logic of EU digital regulation, and citizen evaluations of legitimacy in cross-border and crisis contexts. The panel advances debates on how authority, legitimacy, and regulatory power are exercised and contested across borders in an increasingly expansive European Union.

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Pre-Accession Assistance as EU Policy-Making in Practice: Evolution, Implementation, and Governance	View Paper Details
Legitimacy Beyond Borders: Input vs. Output Legitimacy in EU Consular Protection – The Case of Spain	View Paper Details
Could the European Union evolve into a supranational civil sphere? An analysis of European integration policies during crises	View Paper Details
Explaining Digital Regulation through the Multiple Streams Framework	View Paper Details
Intersectionality in a Web of Barriers	View Paper Details