Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity
, by Banchoff,ThomasNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415181891 | 0415181895
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 3/19/1999
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.