Books by Albert Weale

This book analyses the political legitimacy of the European Union. Developing a distinctive normative theory of political association, it evaluates the project of European integration. It develops its arguments through an original interplay of political science and political theory. -- .

This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist. It proceeds to consider in detail a range of key issues in democratic theory in relation to which these conceptions can be distinguished.