This book brings together cutting-edge research on the legitimacy of regional integration processes in Europe and the Americas. Across fourteen chapters, specialists of regionalism in Europe, North America and South America demonstrate that the societal legitimacy of regional governance deserves attention because it affects the development – and relative success – of regional integration projects such as the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR. Employing a mixed-method perspective, the contributors to this volume examine public opinion, political discourse and civil society mobilization surrounding regional institutions, identifying distinct legitimation patterns in each of the three world regions. In doing so, they demonstrate that comparative research on the legitimation of regional governance advances our understanding of the driving forces, obstacles and trajectories of regional integration more generally.
Edited by Achim Hurrelmann, Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University and Steffen Schneider, a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy (Socium) at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Monday, December 21, 2015 in Faculty Publications, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, News
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