TY - BOOK AU - Lindseth,Peter L. TI - Power and legitimacy: reconciling Europe and the nation-state SN - 9780199866397 (ebook) : AV - KJE5602 U1 - 342.2'406 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Administrative law KW - European Union countries KW - International and municipal law KW - Legitimacy of governments N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The implications of European integration for national democracy and constitutionalism are well known. Nevertheless, as the events of the last decade made clear, the EU's complex system of governance has been unable to achieve a democratic or constitutional legitimacy in its own right. The author traces the roots of this paradox UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390148.001.0001 ER -