Edited by Beate Kohler-Koch and Berthold Rittberger

Chapter 1: Charting Crowded Territory: Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union
Part I: Democracy: The Constitutional Principle of the EU
Chapter 2: A Disputed Idea Becomes Law: Remarks on European Democracy as a Legal Principle
Part II: What Future for Parliamentary Democracy in the EU?
Chapter 3: Expanding National Parliamentary Control: Does it Enhance European Democracy?
Chapter 4: The European Parliament between Policy-Making and Control
Chapter 5: Constructing Parliamentary Democracy in the European Union: How Did It Happen?
Chapter 6: Parliamentary Representation in a Decentred Polity
Part III: The Public Sphere and Civil Society: Pre-Requisites for Democratically Legitimate Rule-Making
Chapter 7: Pre-Requisites of Transnational Democracy and Mechanisms of Sustaining it: The Case of the European Union
Chapter 8: The Europeanization of Protest: A Typology and Empirical Evidence
Part IV: Democracy and Political Participation
Chapter 9: Participatory Governance and European Democracy
Chapter 10: Some Considerations on Participation in Participatory Governance
Chapter 11: The Organization of Interests and Democracy in the European Union
Part V: Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 12: The Euro-Polity in Perspective: Some Normative Lessons from Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 13: Reconceptualizing the Supremacy of European Law: A Plea for a Supranational Conflict of Laws