Democracy beyond the modernist subject: complexity and the late-modern reconfiguration of legitimacy -- Efficiency and democracy: reconstructing the foundations of a troubled relationship -- Citizens' expectations: Is what matters only what works? -- Re-engaging citizens: institutional responses to political disengagement -- Informal government: complexity, transparency and legitimacy -- Delegated authority: legitimising the regulatory state -- Delegation to EU: participation versus efficiency in German EU-policy -- The legitimacy of EU decision-making: theory and practice of the open method of co-ordination and the European employment strategy -- Advisory committees in EU agricultural policy: a suitable source of political legitimacy? -- More input-better output: does citizen involvement improve environmental -- Toward horizontalisation and politicisation: challenging the governance rationale of Finnish technology policy -- Legitimacy problem in the allocation of health care: decision-making procedures in international comparison

1. Policy sciences
2. Legitimacy of governments -- Europe
3. Political planning -- Europe