Abstract (eng)
In my Magisterthesis, I compare citizen preferences towards the allocation of competences in the European Union (EU) with the actual empirical allocation of competences in order to test the quality of the Union’s output legitimacy. I start with a literary review of legitimacy theory concerning the EU and find that, with the halting republican democratic development, there has been a re-discovering of output-legitimacy. However, my empirical findings suggest, that output-legitimacy might not be as strong as traditionally assumed.