Subject(s): Democracy -- Political science -- Power (Social sciences) -- Public administration -- Europe in Politics and government -- Governance and Democracy -- Governance , accountability and democratic legitimacy -- Multilevel Governance, regional policy and democratic legitimacy in Germany -- Governance, expertise and competitive politics: the case to territorial development policies in France -- Resilience through governance with democracy -- Governance at the European level -- Policy making and accountability in EU multilevel governance -- Legitimacy of functional participation in European risk regulation : a case study of occupational health and safety -- European governance y communittees: the implications of comitology on the democratic arena -- Governance in the European union: a viable mechanism for future legitimation -- Governance at the transnational level -- Transnational governance and legitimacy -- Private actores and the legitimacy of governance beyond the state: conceptional outlines and empirical explorations -- Privatization of governance systems: on the legitimacy of international environmental policy -- Accountability and the WTO dispute settlement system -- Actors, institutions and democratic governance