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9780521190909

The Making of a European Public Sphere: Media Discourse and Political Contention

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    9780521190909

  • ISBN10:

    0521190908

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-09-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil society. Behind debates over Europe's "democratic deficit" is a deeper concern: whether democratic politics can perform effectively under conditions of Europeanization and globalization. This study is based on a wealth of unique data from seven European countries, combining newspaper content analyses, an innovative study of Internet communication structures, and hundreds of interviews with leading political and media representatives across Europe. It is by far the most far-reaching and empirically grounded study on the Europeanization of media discourse and political contention to date, and a must-read for anyone interested in how European integration changes democratic politics and why European integration has become increasingly contested.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Europe's search for a public sphere
A European Public Sphere: Questions and Approach:
The European Union and the public sphere: conceptual issues, political tensions, moral concerns, empirical questions
Theoretical framework, research design and methods
European Public Debates: Visibility and Inclusiveness:
The Europeanization of public spheres: comparisons across issues, time and countries
Winners and losers, supporters and opponents in Europeanized public debates
Mass Media: Performance, Claim Making and Framing:
Making Europe news: journalism and media performance
The media's voice over Europe: issue salience and conflict lines in editorials
Transnational political communication on the Internet: search engine results and hyperlink networks
Framing the European Union in national public spheres
Political Actors: Collective Action and Party Competition:
Going public in the EU: action repertoires of collective political actors
Political party contestation: emerging Euroscepticism or a normalization of Eurocriticism?
Conclusion:
What kind of Europeanized public politics?
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