Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Hoffmann & van der Vleuten: Closing or Widening the Gap?: Legitimacy and Democracy in Regional Integration Organizations

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) & Anna van der Vleuten (Radboud University Nijmegen - Institute for Management Research) have published Closing or Widening the Gap?: Legitimacy and Democracy in Regional Integration Organizations (Ashgate 2007). Contents include:
  • Anna van der Vleuten & Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Legitimacy, democracy and RIOs: where is the gap?
  • Berry Tholen, RIOs, legitimacy and democracy: A conceptual clarification
  • Juliana Erthal, Discussing regional democracy
  • Bob Reinalda, The question of input, control and output legitimacy in economic RIOs
  • Andrés Malamud & Luís de Sousa, Regional parliaments in Europe and Latin America: between empowerment and irrelevance
  • Marcelo A. Medeiros, Subnational state actors and their role in regional governance
  • Michelle Ratton Sanchez, Is there any room for input and control legitimacy by civil society in Mercosur?
  • Gerda van Roozendaal, The contribution of non-state actors to the legitimacy of the Caricom
  • Anna van der Vleuten, Contrasting cases: explaining interventions by SADC and ASEAN
  • Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Political conditionality and democratic clauses in the EU and Mercosur
  • Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann & Anna van der Vleuten, Legitimacy and democracy in Regional Integration Organizations: closing or widening the gap?