Closing or widening the gap?
Subtitle: legitimacy and democracy in regional international organizations
By: [edited] by Andrea Ribeiro-Hoffmann and Anna van der Vleuten.
Contributors: Ribeiro-Hoffmann, Andrea.; Vleuten, Johanna Maria van der, 1960-
Series: Non-state actors in international law, politics and governance series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754649687
Subjects: International agencies -- Evaluation; Regionalism (International organization) -- Evaluation; World politics -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legitimacy, democracy and RIOs : what is the issue? / Anna van der Vleuten and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann; title: RIOs, legitimacy and democracy : a conceptual clarification / Berry Tholen; title: Discussing regional and domestic democracy / Juliana Erthal; title: The question of input, control and output legitimacy in economic RIOs / Bob Reinalda; title: Regional parliaments in Europe and Latin America : between empowerment and irrelevance / Andrés Malamud and Luís de Sousa; title: Sub-national state actors and their role in regional governance / Marcelo A. Medeiros; title: Is there any room for legitimacy by civil society in Mercosur? / Michelle Ratton Sanchez; title: The contribution of non-state actors to the legitimacy of Caricom / Gerda van Roozendaal; title: Contrasting cases: explaining interventions by SADC and ASEAN / Anna van der Vleuten; title: Political conditionality and democratic clauses in the EU and Mercosur / Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann; title: Legitimacy and democracy in RIOs : closing or widening the gap? / Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Anna van der Vleuten.