Democratic Dilemmas of Multilevel Governance: Legitimacy, Representation and Accountability in the European Union

✍ Scribed by Joan DeBardeleben, Achim Hurrelmann (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Series: Transformations of the State
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on the EU, this volume, with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical research, examines the problems multilevel governance causes for democratic legitimacy by placing it in a comparative and theoretical context, and explore how challenges faced by the EU compare with those faced by traditional federal systems worldwide.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Multilevel Legitimacy: Conceptualizing Legitimacy Relationships between the EU and National Democracies....Pages 17-37
Federalism and Democratic Accountability....Pages 38-58
Between Anarchy and Hierarchy: Governance Lessons from Global Economic Institutions....Pages 59-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Europeanization and Democracy: the Question of Cultural Identity....Pages 77-93
The Quest for a European Public Sphere: News Media and Democratic Legitimacy....Pages 94-116
Is There a European Society? Social Conditions for Democracy in the EU....Pages 117-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
European Elections and Democratic Accountability: the 2004 Elections to the European Parliament....Pages 139-157
National Parliaments and the Future of European Integration: Learning to Play the Multilevel Game....Pages 158-176
Organized Civil Society and Input Legitimacy in the EU....Pages 177-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Euroscepticism as a Path for Inclusion: Multilevel Governance in the EU as Seen from the East....Pages 197-215
Gender Equality and Multilevel Governance in East Central Europe....Pages 216-239
Conclusion....Pages 240-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-255

✦ Subjects

European Politics;European Union Politics;Comparative Politics;Sociology, general;Political Science;International Relations

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