Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance

Introduction; Beatriz Pérez de las Heras.- PART I. Institutional mechanisms for citizen involvement and innovative instruments of participatory democracy: an attempt to promote an active citizenship and improve the legislative legitimacy of the EU.- Chapter 1. Institutional instruments for citizen involvement and participation: their impact on the EU's political processes and institutional legitimacy; Markus Thiel and Oana Petrescu.- Chapter 2. The European citizens' initiative as democratic legitimacy enhancing tool: towards a broader conceptualization; Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka and Elizabeth Monaghan.- Chapter 3. From legislative controllers to policy proponents: the evolving role of national parliaments in the EU multi-level governance; Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka.- Chapter 4. European civil society and 'participatory' governance tools: the impact of the EU fundamental rights agency & platform; Markus Thiel.- PART II. Legal formalization of fundamental rights in the EU: towards a more inclusive and politically responsible Europe?.- Chapter 5. The charter of fundamental rights as a new element of European identity and beyond; Beatriz Pérez de las Heras.- Chapter 6. The accession to the European convention on human rights: the EU integration in a legal and judicial system reserved to states; Oana Petrescu.- Chapter 7. Democratic legitimacy and the court of justice of the European union; Peter Gjørtler.- PART III. Supranational options to reinforce the political legitimacy of the EU; Chapter 8. The role of culture in the construction of European identity; Mª Luz Suárez.- Chapter 9. New European economic governance versus European economic government: from market constitutionalism towards a more redistributive constitutionalism; Ainhoa Lasa.- Chapter 10. The transcendental construction of the social dimension of the European union: the challenges of the EU social model through and post crisis; Ainhoa Lasa and Jone Itxaro Elizondo.- Chapter 11.

Beatriz Pérez de las Heras is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Deusto, Spain, where she holds the Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, and Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on European Union Law and International Relations.