Lecturas para el primer bloque temático (obligatorias / leer en este orden)

• Dahl, Robert (1995). "A Democratic Dilemma: System Effectiveness versus Citizen
Participation" Political Science Quarterly, Volume 109, Issue 1 (Spring, 1994), 23-34.
• Beetham David y Christopher Lord (1998). Legitimacy and the European Union, New York: Longman
(páginas seleccionadas).
• Moravcsik, Andrew., (2002). "In defense of the democratic deficit: reassessing legitimacy", Journal of
Common Market Studies 40: 603-624.
• Majone, Giandomenico (2004). "Europe's democracy deficit: the question of standards", European Law
Journal 4 (1): 5-28.

Lecturas para el segundo bloque temático (obligatorias / leer en este orden)

• Weiler, Joseph. H. H. et al., (1995). "European democracy and its critique –five uneasy pieces" EUI
Working Papers RSC 95/11. * [Alternativamente: Weiler, JH. H, (1995). Europa, fin de siglo, Madrid:
Centro de Estudios Constitucionales].
• Scharpf, Fritz. (1997) "Balancing Negative and Positive Integration in the EU: the regulatory options for
Europe". Robert Schuman Centre Policy Papers 97/4. [Hay una versión larga en castellano: Scharpf, F.
(2000), Gobernar en Europa ¿Eficaz y democráticamente?, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
• Lord, Christopher, (2000). "Legitimacy, democracy and the EU: when abstract questions become
practical policy problems", Policy Papers 03/00 ("One Europe or several?" Research program).

Lecturas para el tercer bloque temático (obligatorias / leer en este orden)

• Schmitter, P. (2003) 'Democracy in Europe and Europe's Democratization', Journal of Democracy, 14 (4),
71-85.]3; [Hay presión española, Schmitter, P. (2003), 'Entre la democracia en Europa y la
democratización de Europa', in A. Guerra, J. F. Tezanos (eds) Alternativas para el siglo XXI. I Encuentro
Salamanca (Madrid: Editorial Sistema), 425-437.
• Eriksen, Erik Oddvar y John Erik Fossum, 'Europe in Search of Legitimacy: Strategies of Legitimation
Assessed', 25 (2004) International Political Science Review, 435-59.
• Bartolini, Stefano y Hix, Simon. (2007). "Politics: the Right or Wrong Sort of Medicine for the
EU?". Notre Europe, Policy Papers, no.19.
• Grabbe, Heather and Lehne, Stefan (2013). “The 2014 European elections: Why a partisan Commission
president would be bad for the EU?”, Centre for European Reform.

Lecturas para el cuarto bloque temático (obligatorias / leer en este orden)

• Scharpf, Fritz W. (2011), "Monetary Union, Fiscal Crisis and the Preemption of Democracy". MPIfG
Discussion Paper 11/11.
• Smaghi, Lorenzo Bini (2014), “Austerity, A threat to Democracy”. The International Spectator, Vol. 49.
No 1. March 2014, págs. 7-17.
• Pickford, Stephen, Steinberg, Federico y Otero-Iglesias, Miguel (2014) “How to fix de Euro:
Strenghtening Economic Governance in Europe”. A Joint Chatham House, Elcano and AREL Report.
March 2014.
• Dullien, Sebastian y Torreblanca, José I. (2012). “What is Political Union?” European Council on Foreign
Relations, Policy Brief. No. 70.