1st Edition

Political Representation and European Union Governance

Edited By Peter Mair, Jacques Thomassen Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially contested concept. Its meaning has evolved with the development of representative democracy at the level of the nation state, and normative theories of political representation... Read more

1. Democracy without Democracy?: Can the EU’s Democratic ‘Outputs’ be Separated from the Democratic ‘Inputs’ Provided by Competitive Parties and Majority Rule? - Richard Bellamy  2. Political Representation and Government in the European Union - Peter Mair and Jacques Thomassen  3. The European Parliament: One Parliament, Several Modes of Political Representation on the Ground? - David Farrell and Roger Scully  4. Consistent Choice Sets? The Stances of Political Parties towards European Integration in 10 Central East European Democracies, 2003-2007 - Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield 5. With or Without You? Revisiting territorial state-bypassing in EU interest representation - Michael Tatham  6. Civil Society and EU Democracy: ‘Astroturf’ Representation? - Beate Kohler 7. The EU’s many Representative Modes: Colliding? Cohering? - Christopher Lord and Johannes Pollak

Biography

Peter Mair is Professor of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Jacques Thomassen is distinguished Professor of politics at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.