Description:
Ever since Maastricht, the democratic legitimacy of the European Union has been a key concern of policy makers. Drawing on the republican idea of mixed government, this book proposes a novel solution to the EU's democratic legitimacy.
Brief description: Dario Castiglione is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include (as co-editor) The History of Political Thought in National Context (CUP, 2001), Making European Citizens (Palgrave, 2006), The Culture of Toleration in Diverse Societies: Reasonable Tolerance, (Manchester University Press, 2003), The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies (Hart Publishers, 2007), The Oxford Handbook on Social Capital (OUP, 2008); and the forthcoming Giving Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation (Chicago University Press); (as co-author) Constitutional Politics in the EU: The Convention Moment and its Aftermath (Palgrave, 2007).
Review Quotes: The two authors are the Gold Standard when it comes to this topic.--Glyn Morgan, Director of the Moynihan Center of European Studies, Syracuse University