The Federal Vision Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the United States and the European Union

by Nicolaidis, Kalypso; Howse, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780199245000
• ISBN10: 0199245002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Based on a transatlantic dialogue between scholars, this work addresses the complex and changing relationship between levels of governance within the United States and the European Union. It examines modes of governance on both sides, analyzing the ramifications of the legitimacy crisis in our multi-layered democracies and moving beyond the current policy debates over "devolution" and "subsidiarity." Its authors believe that in spite of the fundamental differences between them, both the EU and the US are in the process of re-defining a federal vision for the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xii
List of Tables	xiii
Preface	xiv
Jacques Delors
Joseph Nye
Introduction: The Federal Vision, Levels of Governance, and Legitimacy	1	(30)
Robert Howse
Kalypso Nicolaidis
I: Articulating the Federal Vision
The United States and the European Union: Models for Their Epochs	31	(23)
Daniel J. Elazar
Federalism without Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg	54	(19)
J. H. H. Weiler
II: Levels of Governance in the United States and the European Union: Facts and Diagnosis
Centralization and Its Discontents: The Rhythms of Federalism in the United States and the European Union	73	(45)
John D. Donahue
Mark A. Pollack
Blueprints for Change: Devolution and Subsidiarity in the United States and the European Union	118	(26)
David Lazer
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
Devolution in the United States: Rhetoric and Reality	144	(17)
John Kincaid
Federalism in the European Union: Rhetoric and Reality	161	(30)
Andrew Moravesik
III: Legal and Regulatory Instruments of Federal Governance
The Role of Law in the Functioning of Federal Systems	191	(22)
George A. Bermann
Comparative Federalism and the Issue of Commandeering	213	(39)
Daniel Halberstam
Regulatory Legitimacy in the United States and the European Union	252	(25)
Giandomenico Majone
IV: Federalism, Legitimacy, and Governance: Models for Understanding
Securing Subsidiarity: The Institutional Design of Federalism in the United States and Europe	277	(23)
Cary Coglianese
Kalypso Nicolaidis
Federal Governance in the United States and the European Union: A Policy Network Perspective	300	(35)
John Peterson
Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr
Federalism and State Governance in the European Union and the United States: An Institutional Perspective	335	(20)
Vivien Schmidt
Democratic Legitimacy under Conditions of Regulatory Competition: Why Europe differs from the United States	355	(22)
Fritz W. Scharpf
V: Federalism, Legitimacy, and Identity
Citizenship and Federations: Some Preliminary Reflections	377	(26)
Sujit Choudhry
The Constitutions of Institutions	403	(10)
Elizabeth Meehan
Beyond Devolution: From Subsidiarily to Mutuality	413	(14)
Marc Landy
Steven M. Teles
European Citizenship: The Relevance of the American Model	427	(12)
Denis Lacorne
Conclusion: The Federal Vision Beyond the Federal State	439	(44)
Kalypso Nicolaidis
Appendix: Basic Principles for the Allocation of Competence in the United States and the European Union	483	(22)
George A. Bermann
Kalypso Nicolaidis
About the Contributors	505	(10)
Index	515