Introduction: conceptualizing legitimacy in a contested policy / Thomas Banchoff and Mitchell P. Smith -- EU legitimacy and the "defensive" reaction to the single European market / Mitchell P. Smith -- Unity-in-diversity: cultural policy and EU legitimacy / Melissa Pantel -- Reconciliation and legitimacy: foreign relations and enlargement of the European Union / Lil Gardner Feldman -- Political parties and the problem of legitimacy in the European Union / Robert Ladrech -- National parties and the contestation of Europe / Gary Marks and Carole Wilson -- The European parliament and EU legitimacy / Wolfgang Wessels and Udo Diedrichs -- EU citizenship: implications for identity and legitimacy / Rey Koslowski -- National identity and EU legitimacy in France and Germany / Thomas Banchoff -- Political rhetoric and the legitimation of the European Union / John Gaffney.