'Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union' develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'.

Niilo Kauppi is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland

Introduction
1. Some theoretical premises of European Union research
2. A structural constructivist theory of politics and of European integration
3. French European policy
4. Social and constitutional integration in Finland and France
5. French members of the European Parliament
6. European Parliament elections in Finland and France in 1999
7. Intellectual politics and Europe
Conclusions