The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas

Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse on the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation patterns shape the development of regional governance.

Autorentext
Jared Bok, Emory University, USA Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Brian Bow, Dalhousie University, Canada Pieter de Wilde, Social Science Research Center, Germany Francesco Duina, University of British Columbia, Canada Romy Escher, University of Regensburg, Germany Dieter Fuchs, University of Stuttgart, Germany Achim Hurrelmann, Carleton University, Canada Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside, USA Caryn Peiffer, University of Birmingham, UK Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Free University of Berlin, Germany Pia Riggirozzi, University of Southampton, UK Ian Robinson, University of Michigan, USA Steffen Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Mitchell A. Seligson, Vanderbilt University, USA Virginie Van Ingelgom, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga, Vanderbilt University, USA

Zusammenfassung
"This book analyses politicization and legitimation of regional governance in Europe and the Americas. The chapters demonstrate convincingly that legitimacy matters for regional integration. Although scholarship on legitimacy in the EU has grown in recent years the topic has so far only received scant attention in relation to integration efforts in North and South America. This is a solid and important contribution to the literature on comparative regional integration." - Finn Laursen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark