Making of a European Public Sphere (eBook, PDF)

Media Discourse and Political Contention
Redaktion: Koopmans, Ruud

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511903847
• Artikelnr.: 38186238

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Europe's search for a public sphere Paul Statham; Part I. A
European Public Sphere: Questions and Approach: 1. The European Union and
the public sphere: conceptual issues, political tensions, moral concerns,
empirical questions Jos de Beus; 2. Theoretical framework, research design
and methods Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham; Part II. European Public
Debates: Visibility and Inclusiveness: 3. The Europeanization of public
spheres: comparisons across issues, time and countries Ruud Koopmans,
Jessica Erbe and Martin F. Meyer; 4. Winners and losers, supporters and
opponents in Europeanized public debates Ruud Koopmans; Part III. Mass
Media: Performance, Claim Making and Framing: 5. Making Europe news:
journalism and media performance Paul Statham; 6. The media's voice over
Europe: issue salience and conflict lines in editorials Barbara Pfetsch,
Silke Adam and Barbara Eschner; 7. Transnational political communication on
the Internet: search engine results and hyperlink networks Ruud Koopmans
and Ann Zimmermann; 8. Framing the European Union in national public
spheres Juan Diez Medrano and Emily Gray; Part IV. Political Actors:
Collective Action and Party Competition: 9. Going public in the EU: action
repertoires of collective political actors Hanspeter Kriesi, Anke Tresch
and Margit Jochum; 10. Political party contestation: emerging
Euroscepticism or a normalization of Eurocriticism? Paul Statham, Ruud
Koopmans, Anke Tresch and Julie Firmstone; Conclusion: 11. What kind of
Europeanized public politics? Paul Statham.