Democratic Dilemmas of Multilevel Governance: Legitimacy, Representation and Accountability in the European Union

by Joan Debardeleben (Editor), Achim Hurrelmann (Editor)

Focusing on the EU, this volume, with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical research, examines the problems multilevel governance causes for democratic legitimacy by placing it in a comparative and theoretical context, and explore how challenges faced by the EU compare with those faced by traditional federal systems worldwide.

274 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007