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The 11 pages that link to Democratic deficit, each with the reason it gives.

• TechnocracyRelated: Delegating authority to specialists can make public choices seem distant from elected control.

• Elite theoryRelated: Elite influence can widen the gap between popular preferences and policy outcomes.

• Global governanceRelated: Global decisions can have wide effects without equivalent channels for public influence.

• IntergovernmentalismRelated: Government bargaining can shift decisions away from transparent domestic scrutiny.

• International organizationRelated: Distance from voters and opaque decisions make organizational legitimacy a recurring concern.

• European federalismRelated: Federalists present stronger common democratic institutions as one response to this concern.

• Independent central bankRelated: Independent monetary decisions can raise concerns about unelected officials wielding economic power.

• Global justiceRelated: It challenges the legitimacy of global institutions tasked with advancing justice.

• GlobalismRelated: It captures a central criticism of decisions made through remote international institutions.

• SovereigntismRelated: Sovereigntists invoke it when they argue that distant institutions lack adequate public control.

• Political globalizationRelated: Authority exercised through distant institutions can weaken familiar channels of public oversight.