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Closing or widening the gap?: legitimacy and democracy in regional integration organizations

Ribeiro-Hoffmann, Andrea and van der Vleuten, Anna, eds. (2007) Closing or widening the gap?: legitimacy and democracy in regional integration organizations. Ashgate Dartmouth, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9780754649687

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Abstract

connections between regional international governance, legitimacy and democracy. It focuses on the quality of democracy and the legitimacy of policy making in multilevel regional systems. The volume offers a much-needed clarification of confusing concepts such as legitimacy, democracy and 'civil society' in non-national political systems. It critically assesses the quality of democracy and legitimacy within different Regional International Organizations (RIOs); it examines how networks of non-state actors become a kind of transnational civil society and assesses their potential for solving legitimacy deficits; and it investigates the impact of democratic conditionality in different RIOs. The contributors deepen our understanding of a relatively new non-state actor on the international scene - the regional international organization - and investigate the potential contribution of transnational non-state actors to the quality of governance at the regional level.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=0
Additional Information: © 2007 the authors
Divisions: International Relations
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2009 15:58
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:44
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25335

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