Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mind the accountability gap: administrative law
  • Conceptualising democracy, legitimacy, and the development of good governance in the EU
  • Political enforcement, neutral guardianship, and legal uniformity
  • The policy on centralized enforcement: technocratic legitimacy, special relationships, and the turn from good governance
  • The impact of the European Ombudsman: breaking down barriers to procedural legitimacy
  • Centralized enforcement, legitimacy, and good governance in the EU
  • Centralized enforcement, legitimacy and good governance
  • conclusions