"This book analyses the political legitimacy of the European Union, taking democratic citizenship seriously." "Developing a distinctive normative theory of political association. It evaluates the project of European integration in terms of democratic values. It argues that the goods of democratic citizenship have been advanced by European integration in many respects, including environmental policy. In other respects, including social policy democratic citizenship is best advanced by keeping primary political authority at the level of the nation state. It develops these arguments through an original interplay of political science and political theory."--Jacket.