The Making of a European Public Sphere: Media Discourse and Political Contention (Communication, Society and Politics)

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 11
Figures......Page 15
Contributors......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction......Page 21
Part I: A European Public Sphere: Questions and Approach......Page 31
A public sphere deficit of europe?......Page 33
1951–1989: invisibility, or the secret accumulation of eu political capital......Page 36
The eu since 1989: initiative and impasse......Page 40
The call for a european public sphere: practical and ethical......Page 45
Researching the european public......Page 48
2 Theoretical Framework, Research Design, and Methods......Page 54
What do we mean by europeanization of public spheres?......Page 55
Explanatory framework: political opportunities, mediated politics, and claim making......Page 63
Research design: countries, time period, and issue fields......Page 67
Media as a data source: selection of newspapers......Page 70
Claim-making analysis: measuring europeanization from mediated political claims......Page 73
Part II: European Public Debates: Visibility and Inclusiveness......Page 81
European voices: spatial origins of claim makers......Page 83
Issues......Page 84
Time......Page 88
Countries......Page 89
European targets: the spatial scope of claims......Page 94
Issues......Page 96
Time......Page 99
Countries......Page 101
Issues......Page 104
Time......Page 106
Countries......Page 108
Conclusions......Page 113
Introduction and theoretical framework......Page 117
The nature of nationally confined public debates......Page 119
Who participates in europeanized public debates?......Page 122
A multivariate analysis of the determinants of europeanized claim making......Page 128
Who supports and who opposes european institutions and european integration?......Page 134
A multivariate analysis of eurocriticism......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 140
Part III: Mass Media: Performance, Claim Making, and Framing......Page 143
5 Making Europe News: Journalism and Media Performance......Page 145
In search of european journalism......Page 146
Approach......Page 148
Sample and interview method......Page 149
Perceptions of Readerships’ Demand......Page 151
Political Actors’ Source Strategies......Page 152
The EUs Performance as a -Source’......Page 155
Factors internal to news production......Page 157
News Reporting Decisions......Page 158
Commentating Decisions......Page 161
Targeting Strategies......Page 165
Journalists’ Evaluations of Media Performance......Page 167
Discussion: a european journalism?......Page 168
6 The Media’s Voice over Europe: Issue Salience, Openness, and Conflict Lines in Editorials......Page 171
Theoretical considerations and expectations......Page 172
Data and methodology......Page 175
The Visibility of Europe: Issue Salience of European Integration on the Commentary Agenda......Page 177
The Prominence of and Openness for European Actor Constellations......Page 179
Congruence of Debates Across Countries: Conflict Lines in Commentaries on European Integration......Page 182
Discussion......Page 188
Introduction......Page 191
Previous research regarding online political communication......Page 192
Vertical Selection by Search Engines......Page 193
Horizontal Selection by Hyperlinks......Page 195
Selection by search engines......Page 196
Types of Online and Offline Actors Compared......Page 197
The Geopolitical Scope of Online and Offline Claim Makers......Page 199
Selection in hyperlink networks......Page 202
Conclusions and discussion......Page 212
Introduction......Page 215
The concept of frame and its analytical relevance......Page 216
Research design......Page 218
General Observations......Page 219
Functional Actor Categories and Representations of Europe......Page 222
National Categories and Representations of Europe......Page 226
Conclusions......Page 238
Part IV: Political Actors......Page 241
Introduction......Page 243
The strategic challenge of the emergence of an eu polity......Page 244
The strategic challenge of the increasing importance of the public sphere......Page 247
Data and operationalization......Page 250
Elaboration of the Action Repertoires at the Different Levels......Page 253
Europeanization of the Action Repertoires......Page 258
The Relative Importance of Public and Inside Strategies......Page 260
Conclusion......Page 262
Introduction......Page 265
European partisanship: beyond an inverted u?......Page 269
Possible determinants for eurocriticisms......Page 272
The substance and framing of eurocriticism......Page 282
Hard Eurocritics from the Periphery......Page 285
Hard Eurocritics from the Core......Page 286
Soft Eurocritics......Page 288
Whither eurocriticism: toward normalization?......Page 290
Part V: Conclusion......Page 295
Which road to europeanized public politics?......Page 297
A visible europeanized public politics?......Page 305
An inclusive europeanized public politics?......Page 310
A contested europeanized public politics?......Page 315
Post-constitution europeanized public politics: a realistic way forward......Page 319
References......Page 327
Index......Page 347