Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union

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Preface Furio Cerutti, Sonia Lucarelli and Vivien Schmidt Part 1: Reflections on Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union 1. How Not to (mis)Understand Political Identity in the European Union Furio Cerutti 2. The Problems of Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union: Is More Politics the Answer? Vivien A. Schmidt 3.Europe as a Narrative Network: Taking the Social Embeddedness of Identity Constructions Seriously Klaus Eder 4. European Identity and Support for European Integration Dieter Fuchs 5. Does the Power Exerted by the EU need a Legitimacy Based on the Citizens' European Identity? Nicolas Levrat Part 2: Pathways to Identity Formation and Legitimacy Construction 6. Three European Constitutionalisms and their Respective Legitimacy Requirements: Explaining the Longue Duree Stability of the EU Polity Mario Telo 7. False Expectations: The Counterproductive Side Effects of the EU's use of Political Symbols Albrecht Sonntag 8. Gaining European Legitimacy and Identity through Unlocking the Public Spheres of Nation States: The Case of The Netherlands Jos De Beus and Jeannette Mak 9. Mirrors of Us: European Political Identity and the Others' Image of the EU Sonia Lucarelli 10. Public Visibility and Citizen Participation: The Europeanization of Foreign Policy Debates in the British and German Public Spheres Martin Federico Meyer 11. Debating Identity and Legitimacy in the EU: Concluding Remarks Sonia Lucarelli