In this article we introduce our special issue of the Journal of Language & Politics on the (de)
legitimisation of Europe. We start by outlining the rationale and research that led us to the …

This article provides an overview of the legitimacy and the legitimacy crises of the World
Health Organization (WHO). During the COVID-19 pandemic, in the era of social media …

According to recent scholarship, populist governments engage in “unpolitics,” a repudiation
of politics as the process of resolving conflict, including on the level of the EU. We propose …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the EU's
public diplomacy–towards both domestic and external audiences–during times of crisis. The …

Decentralization, technocracy, democracy and media, administrative control, participation,
devolution, and local governance have become global concepts and issues among public …

Abstract From March 2018 to August 2019, during Matteo Salvini's mandate as Minister of
the Interior, Italy implemented the so-called 'closed-port policy', the closure of Italy's ports to …

Since the 2004 accession to the European Union (EU), Poland, like many other post-
communist countries, have gone through a significant process of convergence to the EU …

Kryzys pandemiczny postawił przed Unią Europejką problem nowego typu. Pojawiło się
pytanie o to jaka powinna być właściwa reakcja na takie zagrożenie. Zagrożenie …

This article addresses the question of how the EU gains influence over public legitimacy in
the social media era. Existing theories focus either on the type of legitimacy at play without …

The nexus between technocracy and populism in Italy can be better understood from a long-
term perspective. Adopting a critical-realist approach to the explanation of political change, it …