Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity

by Banchoff,Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780415181891
• ISBN10: 0415181895
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-03-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This study addresses the problem of EU legitimacy, integrating existing work on the "democratic deficit" with emergent literature on the EU as a new kind of polity. It argues that existing approaches to the legitimacy crisis are rooted in statist categories that poorly fit EU reality.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction: conceptualizing legitimacy in a contested polity	1	(26)
Thomas Banchoff
Mitchell P. Smith
PART I Legitimacy and EU policies
EU legitimacy and the ``defensive'' reaction to the single European market	27	(19)
Mitchell P. Smith
Unity-in-diversity: cultural policy and EU legitimacy	46	(20)
Melissa Pantel
Reconciliation and legitimacy: foreign relations and enlargement of the European Union	66	(27)
Lily Gardner Feldman
PART 2 Legitimacy and institutions
Political parties and the problem of legitimacy in the European Union	93	(20)
Robert Ladrech
National parties and the contestation of Europe	113	(21)
Gary Marks
Carole Wilson
The European Parliament and EU legitimacy	134	(21)
Wolfgang Wessels
Udo Diedrichs
PART 3 Legitimacy and identity
EU citizenship: implications for identity and legitimacy	155	(25)
Rey Koslowski
National identity and EU legitimacy in France and Germany	180	(19)
Thomas Banchoff
Political rhetoric and the legitimation of the European Union	199	(13)
John Gaffney
Conclusion	212	(8)
Thomas Banchoff
Mitchell P. Smith
Index	220