Table of Contents:
  • 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.