Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance [Paperback]

New agencies of international government are among the most innovative and experimental aspects of late twentieth-century politics. This book examines mass opinion about the European Union, its structures, powers, operations, enlargement, and legitimacy, but it also deals with the UN and NATO.

1. Introduction,Oskar Niedermayer & Richard Sinnott
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
2. Bringing Public Opinion Back in,Richard Sinnott
3. A Typology of Orientations,Oskar Niedermayer & Bettina Westle
PART II: SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
4. Trends and Contrasts,Oskar Niedermayer
5. Economic Calculus or Familiarity Breeds Content?,Agusti Bosch & Kenneth Newton
6. Development of Support: Diffusion or Demographic Replacement?,Bernhard Wessels
7. Evaluations of the EC: Elite or Mass-Driven?,Bernhard Wessels
8. Europeans and the Nation State,Guido Martinotti & Sonia Stefanizzi
PART III: LEVELS OF LEGITIMACY
9. Is there a Europan Identity?,Sophie Duchesne & Andr?-Paul Frognier
10. Trust and Sense of Community,Oskar Niedermayer
11. Policy, Subsidiarity, and Legitimacy,Richard Sinnott
12. Democratic Legitimacy and the European Parliament,Oskar Niedermayer & Richard Sinnott
PART IV: ENALARGING THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONALIZED GOVERNANCE
13. The view from Within,Bettina Westle
14. The View from EFTA,Frank Aarebrot, Sten Berglund, and Thomas Weninger
15. The View from Central and Eastern Europe,Sten Berglund, Frank Aarebrot, Jadwiga Koralewicz
16. NATO, the Europan Community, and the United Nations,Philip Everts
17. European Publics and the Legitimacy of Internationalized Governance,Philip Everts and Richard Sinnott