{"title":"Europe in Crisis - On ‘Political Messianism’, ‘Legitimacy’ and the ‘Rule of Law’","authors":"J. H. H. Weiler","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2255263","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"‘Legitimacy’ is a notoriously elusive term, over-used and under-specified. So the first thing I will do is to explain the sense in which I plan to use ‘legitimacy’ in this essay. Do not, please, argue with me and say: “That is not ‘legitimacy’! It means something else!” This is how I plan to use it, and I hope to convince you that it is a useful way for articulating something terribly important about the present crisis and the current state of European integration.","PeriodicalId":38330,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"38","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Singapore Journal of Legal Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2255263","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
‘Legitimacy’ is a notoriously elusive term, over-used and under-specified. So the first thing I will do is to explain the sense in which I plan to use ‘legitimacy’ in this essay. Do not, please, argue with me and say: “That is not ‘legitimacy’! It means something else!” This is how I plan to use it, and I hope to convince you that it is a useful way for articulating something terribly important about the present crisis and the current state of European integration.