Has Europeanization gone too far?

Vivien Schmidt's Democracy in Europe represents a major contribution to the analysis of Europeanization and the legitimacy deficit in Europe. In this paper, we critically discuss three core components of Schmidt's argument: the analytical distinction between simple vs compound polity, the definition of discourse and its role in political change, and the relevance of bureaucracies in the generation of `misfit' between the domestic and European level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]