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Closing or Widening the Gap?

Legitimacy and Democracy in Regional Integration Organizations

Closing or Widening the Gap?

Legitimacy and Democracy in Regional Integration Organizations

ByAndrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Anna van der Vleuten
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315572451
Pages 230 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315572451
SubjectsLaw, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Hoffmann, A., Vleuten, A. (2007). Closing or Widening the Gap?. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315572451

Combining normative analysis and theory-driven empirical research in a comparative framework, this volume clarifies and explains the connections between regional international governance, legitimacy and democracy. It focuses on the quality of democracy and the legitimacy of policy making in multilevel regional systems. The volume offers a much-needed clarification of confusing concepts such as legitimacy, democracy and 'civil society' in non-national political systems. It critically assesses the quality of democracy and legitimacy within different Regional International Organizations (RIOs); it examines how networks of non-state actors become a kind of transnational civil society and assesses their potential for solving legitimacy deficits; and it investigates the impact of democratic conditionality in different RIOs. The contributors deepen our understanding of a relatively new non-state actor on the international scene - the regional international organization - and investigate the potential contribution of transnational non-state actors to the quality of governance at the regional level.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|13 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|11 pages
Legitimacy, Democracy and RIOs: Where is the Gap?
ByAnna van der Vleuten, Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
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part 2|67 pages
Defining and Assessing Legitimacy and Democracy in RIOs
chapter 2|15 pages
RIOs, Legitimacy and Democracy. A Conceptual Clarification
ByBerry Tholen
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chapter 3|16 pages
Discussing Regional Democracy
ByJuliana Erthal
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chapter 4|33 pages
The Question of Input, Control and Output Legitimacy in Economic RIOs
ByBob Reinalda
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part 3|31 pages
RIOs, Regional Parliaments and Subnational State Actors
chapter 5|18 pages
Regional Parliaments in Europe and Latin America: Between Empowerment and Irrelevance
ByAndrés Malamud, Luís de Sousa
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chapter 6|11 pages
Subnational State Actors and their Roles in Regional Governance
ByMarcelo A. Medeiros
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part 4|37 pages
RIOs, Legitimacy and Non-State Actors
chapter 7|17 pages
Is There Any Room for Input and Control Legitimacy by Civil Society in Mercosur?
ByMichelle Ratton Sanchez
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chapter 8|17 pages
The Contribution of Non-state Actors to the Legitimacy of the Caricom 1
ByGerda van Roozendaal
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part 5|37 pages
RIOs and the Member States: Legitimacy and Democracy
chapter 9|18 pages
Contrasting Cases: Explaining Interventions by SADC and ASEAN
ByAnna van der Vleuten
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chapter 10|17 pages
Political Conditionality and Democratic Clauses in the EU and Mercosur
ByAndrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
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part 6|11 pages
Conclusion
chapter 11|9 pages
Legitimacy and Democracy in Regional Integration Organizations: Closing or Widening the Gap?
ByAndrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Anna van der Vleuten
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