The challenge of democratic representation in the European Union

 Content: Political representation in the EU: a second transformation? / Sandra Kröger and Dawid Friedrich --
 Political parties at the European level: do they satisfy the condition of programmatic convergence? / Emmanuel Sigalas and Johannes Pollak --
 Interparliamentary cooperation and democratic representation in the European Union / Cristina Fasone --
 The Committee of the Regions and the upgrading of subnational territorial representation / Simona Piattoni --
 Whom do they represent? Mixed modes of representation in EU-based CSOs / Håkan Johansson --
 Representing their members? Civil society organizations and the EU's external dimension / Meike Rodekamp --
 The plural representative space: how mass media and national parliaments stimulate pluralism through competition / Pieter de Wilde --
 A media perspective on political representation: online claims-making and audience formation in 2009 EP election campaigns / Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz --
 Unelected representatives in the Europolitical field: CSOs between Berlin and Brussels / Erik Jentges --
 From the margins of European integration to the guardians of the treaties? The role of national parliaments in the EU / Tapio Raunio --
 The Europeanization of regional assemblies: a comparison between different ways of approaching the representative challenge in EU affairs / Elena Griglio --
 Interest representation in the EU --
 is there any? A top-down perspective / Stijn Smismans --
 Democracy promoter or interest defender? How the European Commission influences non-electoral representation by civil society organizations / Sandra Kröger --
 Representing workers or presenting EU prescriptions? Trade unions from post-socialist member states in EU multi-level governance / Heiko Pleines --
 Transformation as differentiation: the diversity of representation in the European Union / Dawid Friedrich and Sandra Kröger.