Olaf Cramme is Director of Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Previously, he was a lecturer in European politics at London Metropolitan University and worked as a parliamentary researcher in the UK Houses of Parliament. He is co-editor (with Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan) of Progressive Politics after the Crash (IB Tauris, 2013), After the Third Way (IB Tauris, 2012) and Social Justice in the Global Age (Polity Press, 2009).; Professor Sara Hobolt is Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. She has published extensively on European Union politics, public opinion, and elections. Her most recent book is Blaming Europe? Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union (2014, Oxford University Press), co-authored with James Tilley.

1 Olaf Cramme and Sara B. Hobolt: A European Union under Stress; The Political Consequences of the Crisis; 2 Fritz W. Scharpf: Political Legitimacy in a Non-Optimal Currency Area; 3 Sara B. Hobolt: Public Attitudes towards the Euro Crisis; 4 Hanspeter Kriesi and Edgar Grande: The Europeanization of the National Political Debate; 5 Jonathan White: Politicizing Europe: The Challenge of Executive Discretion; 6 Tapio Raunio: The Role of National Legislatures in EU Politics; 7 Frank Schimmelfennig: Differentiated Integration Before and After the Crisis; Prospects for a more Legitimate and Democratic Europe; 8 Waltraud Schelkle: The Insurance Potential of a Non-Optimal Currency Area; 9 Damian Chalmers and Mariana Chaves: EU Law-Making and the State of European Democratic Agency; 10 Simon Hix: Democratizing a Macroeconomic Union in Europe; 11 Andreas Follesdal: Democratic Standards in an Asymmetric Union; 12 Catherine E. de Vries: Rethinking Electoral Democracy in Europe; 13 Sverker Gustavsson: The Need for Legitimate Opposition and Protectionism

This book offers the first comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis and its impact on democratic politics in the EU. Leading scholars provide political, economic, legal, and sociological perspectives on the main issues at stake and evaluate the prospects of a more legitimate and democratic Europe.