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The struggle for EU legitimacy : = public contestation, 1950-2005 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The struggle for EU legitimacy :/ Claudia Schrag Sternberg.
Reminder of title:	public contestation, 1950-2005 /
Author:	Sternberg, Claudia Schrag,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Legitimacy of governments - European Union countries. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137327840
ISBN:	9781137327840 (electronic bk.)

The struggle for EU legitimacy : = public contestation, 1950-2005 /
Sternberg, Claudia Schrag,

The struggle for EU legitimacy :public contestation, 1950-2005 /Claudia Schrag Sternberg. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave studies in European Union politics. - Palgrave studies in European Union politics..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Approaching Legitimacy through Discursive Meanings -- Plan of the Book -- PART I: PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND PROGRESS: EARLY LEGITIMATING NARRATIVES, 1950s-1970s -- 1. Indispensability -- 2. The European Common Good -- 3. Enlightened Social Engineering -- 4. Legality -- 5. Conclusion -- PART II: DEMOCRACY AND OTHER CHALLENGES: EARLY COUNTER-DISCOURSES, 1950s-1970s -- 6. Democracy -- 7. Intergovernmentalism -- 8. Challenges to Functional Problem-Solving -- 9. Conclusion -- PART III: A EUROPE CLOSER TO THE CITIZENS: THE PEOPLE'S EUROPE PROJECT OF THE 1980s -- 10. Citizen Expectations and the Will of the People -- 11. Communicating with the People and Quantifying Promises -- 12. Forging Europeans -- 13. Subjects into Citizens -- 14. Conclusion -- PART IV: MAASTRICHT IN THE FRENCH AND GERMAN DEBATES: CRUMBLING PROMISES AND THE QUESTION OF WHO MIGHT RULE -- 15. EMU and the Crumbling Promise of Prosperity and Peace -- 16. Whose Rule? Citizens, the Body Politic, and Democracy -- 17. Conclusion -- PART V: DISCURSIVE CRISIS MANAGEMENT: STRESSING AND STRETCHING 'DEMOCRACY', 1990s-2000s -- 18. Democracy as Transparency -- 19. Subsidiarity as Closeness to the Citizens -- 20. Governance and Participation -- 21. Identity- and Demos-Building -- 22. Conclusion -- PART VI: A CONSTITUTIONAL MOMENT? THE CONSTITUTION IN THE FRENCH AND GERMAN DEBATES -- 23. What Kind of Europe Do We Want? The French Debate -- 24. What is Wrong With the French? The German Debate -- 25. Comparisons and Conclusions -- PART VII: THE STORY AND THE LITERATURE: DEMOCRACY, EFFICIENCY, AND THE CONTESTED GAME OF EU POLITICS -- 26. The Story Assembled -- 27. Government By and For the People -- 28. Politicization Versus De-Politicization: EU Politics as a Contested Game -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: EU Legitimacy as a Sisyphean Aspiration?.

What would it mean for the EU to be a legitimate body, and where do our ideas on this question come from? In this award winning book, Claudia Schrag Sternberg explores some of the most significant questions surrounding the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy, in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate. Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in EU-official discourses and their reception in member-state public spheres, specifically in the German and French debates on the Maastricht and Constitutional Draft Treaties. The story told portrays the history of legitimating the EU as a never-ending contest over the ends and goals of integration, as well as a balancing act - which was inescapable given the nature of the integration project - between 'bringing the people in' and 'keeping them out', and between actively politicising and deliberately de-politicising the stakes of EU politics. Schrag Sternberg suggests that continuous contestation is not only a defining feature of this history, but a source of legitimacy in its own right.

ISBN: 9781137327840 (electronic bk.)

Source: 667938Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Corporate Names:

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European Union.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

556538
Legitimacy of governments
--European Union countries.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JN7011

Dewey Class. No.: 341.2422

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