Table of Contents

1. Democracy without Democracy?: Can the EU’s Democratic ‘Outputs’ be Separated from the Democratic ‘Inputs’ Provided by Competitive Parties and Majority Rule? 2. Political Representation and Government in the European Union 3. The European Parliament: One Parliament, Several Modes of Political Representation on the Ground? 4. Consistent Choice Sets? The Stances of Political Parties towards European Integration in 10 Central East European Democracies, 2003-2007 5. With or Without You? Revisiting territorial state-bypassing in EU interest representation 6. Civil Society and EU Democracy: ‘Astroturf’ Representation? 7. The EU’s many Representative Modes: Colliding? Cohering?

About the Author

Peter Mair is Professor of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.


Jacques Thomassen is distinguished Professor of politics at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.