ABSTRACT
The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that should be protected.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Political legitimacy and the democratic deficit
chapter 2|19 pages
Legitimacy and the European Union
David Beetham and Christopher Lord Introduction: legitimacy and the European Union
chapter 3|15 pages
Democracy, legitimacy and majority rule in the European Union
Andreas Ftillesdal Introduction: the double duty of ‘democracy’
part |2 pages
Part II
chapter 6|15 pages
The European Union
Trends in theory and reform A4ichaelJ. lGi.sizelis and Dimitris N Chryssochoou
chapter 9|18 pages
Opportunity structures for citizens’ participation
The case of the European Union Michael JV^entwich’