The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas

"This book analyses politicization and legitimation of regional governance in Europe and the Americas. The chapters demonstrate convincingly that legitimacy matters for regional integration. Although scholarship on legitimacy in the EU has grown in recent years the topic has so far only received scant attention in relation to integration efforts in North and South America. This is a solid and important contribution to the literature on comparative regional integration." - Finn Laursen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Jared Bok, Emory University, USA
Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Brian Bow, Dalhousie University, Canada
Pieter de Wilde, Social Science Research Center, Germany
Francesco Duina, University of British Columbia, Canada
Romy Escher, University of Regensburg, Germany
Dieter Fuchs, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Achim Hurrelmann, Carleton University, Canada
Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside, USA
Caryn Peiffer, University of Birmingham, UK
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Pia Riggirozzi, University of Southampton, UK
Ian Robinson, University of Michigan, USA
Steffen Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany
Mitchell A. Seligson, Vanderbilt University, USA
Virginie Van Ingelgom, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga, Vanderbilt University, USA