Hermann Schmitt

How severe a problem is what many call the 'democratic deficit' of the European Union? Despite a voluminous theoretical literature dealing with this question, there is hardly any systematic empirical investigation of the effectiveness of the system of political representation in the EU and of the legitimacy beliefs of EU citizens that spring from it. Meer

Political Leaders and Democratic Elections unravels and evaluates the importance of political leaders in the vote decision. Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? Meer

Direkte Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament sind ein relativ junges Pflänzchen im Garten der europäischen Politik. Entsprechend jung ist die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit ihnen. Meer

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Meer