Thomas Banchoff / Mitchell Smith (eds.)

Legitimacy and the European Union

The Contested Polity
Herausgeber: Banchoff, Thomas; Smith, Mitchell

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels, beyond the reach of democratic control. Legitimacy and the European Union breaks with established approaches to the problem of the legitimacy of the European Union by focusing on the recent trend towards reconceptualization of the EU not as a superstate or an organization of states, but as a multi-level, contested polity without precedent. The book examines the implications of this reconceptualization for the problem of legitimacy. Individual chapters focus on policy areas, institutions and identity politics. Taken together, they reach two main conclusions. While Europeans do not strongly identify with the EU, they increasingly recognize it as a framework for politics alongside existing national and subnational structures. And while the EU lacks central democratic institutions, the integration process has spawned significant informal and pluralist forms of representation. Rethinking recognition and representation ouside the context of the nation state points to important, if little understood, actual and potential sources of EU legitimacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780415181884
• ISBN-10: 0415181887
• Artikelnr.: 22128649

Autorenporträt

Banchoff, Thomas; Smith, Mitchell

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Thomas Banchoff, Mitchell P. Smith
Part 1 Legitimacy and EU Policies
Chapter 2 EU Legitimacy and the "Defensive" Reaction to the Single European Market, Mitchell P. Smith
Chapter 3 Unity-In-Diversity: Cultural Policy and EU Legitimacy, Melissa Pantel
Chapter 4 Reconciliation and Legitimacy, Lily Gardner Feldman
Part 2 Legitimacy and Institutions
Chapter 5 Political Part Ies and the Problem of Legitimacy in the European Union, Robert Ladrech
Chapter 6 National Part Ies and the Contestation of Europe, Gary Marks, Carole Wilson
Chapter 7 The European Parliament and EU Legitimacy, Wolfgang Wessels, Udo Diedrichs
Part 3 Legitimagy and Identity
Chapter 8 ::, Rey Koslowski
Chapter 9 National Identity and EU Legitimacy In France and Germany, Thomas Banchoff
Chapter 10 Political Rhetoric and the Legitimation of the European Union, John Gaffney
Chapter 11 Conclusion, Thomas Banchoff, Mitchell P. Smith