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This is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical: 'legitimacy only exists if people feel that it does' and that the EU is a unique and dynamic institution, hence legitimating factors are also evolutionary.

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Legitimacy and Legitimation in the Old Europe Adapting Legitimacy to the European Union Liberal Representative Democracy and EU Legitimacy Acting and Interacting: Participatory Democracy and EU Legitimacy A Citizens' European Union The EU's External Performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Legitimating the European Union

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      Publisher Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Published 1 January 2006
      ISBN-13 9781349515257
      978-1349515257
      ISBN-10 1349515256
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      Democracy International relations Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical: 'legitimacy only exists if people feel that it does' and that the EU is a unique and dynamic institution, hence legitimating factors are also evolutionary.

      Table of Contents
      List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Legitimacy and Legitimation in the Old Europe Adapting Legitimacy to the European Union Liberal Representative Democracy and EU Legitimacy Acting and Interacting: Participatory Democracy and EU Legitimacy A Citizens' European Union The EU's External Performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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