Contested meanings of norms – the challenge of democratic governance beyond the state

Contents:

Antje Wiener: Contested meanings of norms: a research framework;
Uwe Puetter: Providing venues for contestation: the role of expert committees and informal dialogue among ministers in European economic policy coordination;
Iain Begg: Contested meanings of transparency in central banking;
Jane Jenson: The European Union's citizenship regime: creating norms and building practices;
Christopher Lord: Contested meanings, democracy assessment and the European Union;
Johannes Pollak: Contested meanings of representation;
Mark Bovens: New forms of accountability and EU-governance;
Sonja Puntscher Riekmann: In search of lost norms: is accountability the solution to the legitimacy problems of the European Union?