Table of Contents

1. Explaining the Constitutionalization of the European Union 2. The Constitutionalization of the European Union: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis 3. Constitutionalization through Enlargement: The Contested Origins of the EU’s Democratic Identity 4. No Integration without Representation. Parliamentary Democracy, European Integration, and the Forgotten Communities 5. Guarding the Guards. The European Convention and the Communitization of Police Cooperation 6. Competition and Community. Constitutional Courts, Rhetorical Action, and the Institutionalization of Human Rights in the European Union 7. Reasons for Constitutionalization: Non-Discrimination, Minority Rights and Social Rights in the Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights 8. Towards the Constitutionalization of Aliens’ Rights in the European Union? 9. Comment: The Constitutionalization of the European Union from a Constructivist Perspective 10. Comment: The Constitutionalization of the European Union from a Rationalist Perspective

About the Author

Berthold Rittberger is Junior professor in Comparative Politics at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology

Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich.