TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banchoff,Thomas F.
AU  - Smith,Mitchell P.
TI  - Legitimacy and the European Union: the contested polity 
T2  - Political dynamics of the EU series
SN  - 0203982037
AV  - JN30 .L43 1999eb
U1  - 341.242/2 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - European Union
KW  - fast
KW  - Union européenne
KW  - ram
KW  - European federation
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - Europe
KW  - Légitimité des gouvernements
KW  - Construction européenne
KW  - LAW
KW  - International
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Competence
KW  - pplt
KW  - Legitimacy
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political parties
KW  - European integration
KW  - Community law
KW  - Partis politiques et Union européenne
KW  - Europe de l'Ouest
KW  - Unité
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: conceptualizing legitimacy in a contested policy / Thomas Banchoff and Mitchell P. Smith -- EU legitimacy and the "defensive" reaction to the single European market / Mitchell P. Smith -- Unity-in-diversity: cultural policy and EU legitimacy / Melissa Pantel -- Reconciliation and legitimacy: foreign relations and enlargement of the European Union / Lil Gardner Feldman -- Political parties and the problem of legitimacy in the European Union / Robert Ladrech -- National parties and the contestation of Europe / Gary Marks and Carole Wilson -- The European parliament and EU legitimacy / Wolfgang Wessels and Udo Diedrichs -- EU citizenship: implications for identity and legitimacy / Rey Koslowski -- National identity and EU legitimacy in France and Germany / Thomas Banchoff -- Political rhetoric and the legitimation of the European Union / John Gaffney
N2  - Beetham and Lord provide concise and analytical coverage of a key topic within the European Union, that is, the legitimacy of European supra-national governance; Most of the contemporary debates about the European Union - about its role, its institutional arrangements, its development dynamic, its expansion and possible futures - revolve around the issue of political legitimacy. Legitimacy and the European Union addresses the fundamental issues at the heart of the debates on Europe and examines such key questions as:- -What is the scope of the EU's authority -Is there a legitimacy deficit? If so, how much does it matter -Does political legitimacy only reside in the nation state? Using a multi-dimensional conception of political legitimacy, the text analyses the character and problems of the European Union's authority in respect of democracy, political identity and governmental performance. Its distinctive claim is that political legitimacy can now only be understood as a process of interaction between the state and EU levels, and that this interaction impacts differentially on different member states
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