Legitimacy and the European Union

The Contested Polity

Thomas Banchoff, Mitchell Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-18189-1 (ISBN)

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Banchoff and Smith address the controversial issue of whether the European Union is a legitimate political entity, looking at issues such as the democratic deficit.

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.

Banchoff, Thomas; Smith, Mitchell

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.1999
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-415-18189-5 / 0415181895
ISBN-13	978-0-415-18189-1 / 9780415181891
Zustand	Neuware