The dichotomy between “Input legitimacy” and “output legitimacy” in the light of the EU institutional developments
The Article deals with the complex legitimacy problem that arose in the aftermath of the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis. This crisis has triggered a “twin legitimacy deficit”, with output legit-imacy undermined, in terms of the EU’s capacity to react through European-wide redistributive poli-cies, and the input legitimacy of national representative institutions severely limited under the strict conditionality put in place by the new governance system and by the “command-and-control relation-ship” imposed.