Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Multilevel Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: Conceptual Issues -- 1 Multilevel Legitimacy: Conceptualizing Legitimacy Relationships between the EU and National Democracies -- 2 Federalism and Democratic Accountability -- 3 Between Anarchy and Hierarchy: Governance Lessons from Global Economic Institutions -- Part II Social Underpinnings of Democracy in the EU -- 4 Europeanization and Democracy: the Question of Cultural Identity -- S The Quest for a European Public Sphere: News Media and Democratic Legitimacy -- 6 Is There a European Society? Social Conditions for Democracy in the EU -- Part III Political Participation in the EU's Multilevel System -- 7 European Elections and Democratic Accountability: the 2004 Elections to the European Parliament -- 8 National Parliaments and the Future of European Integration: Learning to Play the Multilevel Game -- 9 Organized Civil Society and Input Legitimacy in the EU -- Part IV EU Enlargement, Democracy and Multilevel Governance -- 10 Euroscepticism as a Path for Inclusion: Multilevel Governance in the EU as Seen from the East -- 11 Gender Equality and Multilevel Governance in East Central Europe -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Focusing on the EU, this volume, with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical research, examines the problems multilevel governance causes for democratic legitimacy by placing it in a comparative and theoretical context, and explore how challenges faced by the EU compare with those faced by traditional federal systems worldwide.

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