In Search of Legitimacy
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In Search of Legitimacy

Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Complexity

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In Search of Legitimacy

Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Complexity

About this book

In European societies social differentiation, value pluralism and international integration have brought about a condition of previously unknown complexity. Citizens' expectations regarding political participation and the legitimization of government policy are rising, yet the capacities for social integration and political consensus formation may be in decline. This volume investigates how political actors and institutions in established European democracies are seeing to manage the condition of complexity and how this condition reconfigures the foundations of democratic politics. From the Contents: Legitimacy Crises, Efficiency Gaps, Democratic Deficits Efficiency versus Democracy: Conceptual Reconciliation of a Troubled Relationship? Citizens' Expectations: Is what matters only what works? Re-engaging Citizens: Institutional Responses to Political Disengagement Informal Government Delegated Authority: Legitimizing Independent Regulatory Agencies Delegation to the EU The Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) and The European Employment Strategy Committee Governance in EU Agricultural Policy Efficiency versus Legitimacy: The Governance of Technology Does citizen involvement improve the quality, legitimacy and implementability of environmental policy? The Allocation of Health Care The Post-democratic Turn: Complexity and the Reconfiguration of Democratic Politics

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. In Search of Legitimacy
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Figures
  6. Introduction Legitimacy Crises, Efficiency Gaps, Democratic Deficits (Ingolfur Blühdorn)
  7. Chapter 1 Democracy beyond the Modernist Subject: Complexity and the Late-modern Reconfiguration of Legitimacy (Ingolfur Blühdorn)
  8. Chapter 2 Efficiency and Democracy: Reconstructing the Foundations of a Troubled Relationship (Joachim Blatter)
  9. Chapter 3 Citizens’ Expectations: Is What Matters only What Works? (Pierre Lefébure)
  10. Chapter 4 Re-engaging Citizens: Institutional Responses to Political Disengagement (Alexandra Kelso)
  11. Chapter 5 Informal Government: Complexity, Transparency and Legitimacy (Uwe Jun)
  12. Chapter 6 Delegated Authority: Legitimising the Regulatory State (Martino Maggetti)
  13. Chapter 7 Delegation to the EU: Participation versus Efficiency in German EU-Policy (Timm Beichelt)
  14. Chapter 8 The Legitimacy of EU Decision-Making: Theory and Practice of the Open Method of Co-ordination and the European Employment Strategy (Peter Bursens)
  15. Chapter 9 Advisory Committees in EU Agricultural Policy: A Suitable Source of Political Legitimacy? (Karen Heard-Lauréote)
  16. Chapter 10 More Input – Better Output: Does Citizen Involvement Improve Environmental Governance? (Jens Newig and Oliver Fritsch)
  17. Chapter 11 Towards Horizontalisation and Politicisation: Challenging the Governance Rationale of Finnish Technology Policy (Soile Kuitunen and Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith)
  18. Chapter 12 Legitimacy Problems in the Allocation of Health Care: Decision-Making Procedures in International Comparison (Claudia Landwehr and Ann-Charlotte Nedlund)
  19. On the Contributors to this volume