Overview

This book investigates the way politicians and citizens evaluated the European Union and the process of European integration in public debates during the 2009 European Parliament elections. It presents detailed and rigorous content analysis of online media where citizens directly and voluntarily responded to news stories posted by journalists. New evidence is presented about the dynamic nature of contestation about Europe on the internet and the degree of convergence towards Euroscepticism across EU member states. Such convergence poses new challenges for democratic representation in the EU and provides insight into the public basis for a legitimate European Union. 'In this book European contestation has come of age. Pieter de Wilde, Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jorg Trenz deliver a tour de force in mapping the multifaceted debate about Europe among parties and citizens in twelve countries. Informed by rich media data they convincingly argue that opposition as well as support for Europe comes in different shades: it can be partial, conditional, or temporal. This is a wonderfully nuanced book for scholars, students and policy makers concerned about Europe's future.' Liesbet Hooghe, W. R. Kenan, Jr.Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina and Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU University of Amsterdam

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Author:   Pieter de Wilde ,  Asimina Michailidou ,  Hans J Trenz
Publisher:   ECPR Press
Imprint:   ECPR Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.209kg
ISBN:  

9781907301513

ISBN 10:   1907301518
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables vii List of Abbreviations xi Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xvi Preface xvii Chapter One: Political Contestation and European Integration: A Public Sphere Approach 1 Chapter Two: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Approach of Online EU Polity Contestation 21 Chapter Three: Contesting Europe: Towards Convergence? 37 Chapter Four: The Mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in Austria: EP Campaigning Between Media Populism and Far Right Extremism 61 Chapter Five: EU Polity Contestation in France and French-Speaking Belgium: The Bounded Impact of a Referendum Amandine Crespy and Olga Fimin 79 Chapter Six: Contending European Integration in Germany: From Permissive Consensus to Moderate Euroscepticism 101 Chapter Seven: Reflecting a Morose Political Climate: EU Polity Contestation in Hungary Maria Heller, Tamás Kohut and Borbála Kriza 119 Chapter Eight: The Netherlands: Reliving the 2005 Referendum on the Constitutional Treaty? 137 Chapter Nine: The European Other: The EU as External Threat in the Polish Online Debate Natasza Styczyńska 155 Chapter Ten: The UK: A Case of Extraordinary Euroscepticism 173 Chapter Eleven: The Limited Convergence in EU Polity Contestation: Implications for Democracy 195 Appendices 205 Bibliography 225 Index 259

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"Pieter de Wilde is senior researcher at the Department of Transnational Conflict and International Institutions, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo where he conducted research on the politicization of European integration at ARENA, Center for European Studies. Currently, he is working on the WZB project ""The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism"". Asimina Michailidou is senior researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Her work revolves around two themes: the European public sphere and online media communications. She is currently exploring the interplay between online media and mobilization in the context of crisis under ARENA's EUROTRANS project (The Transformation and Sustainability of the European Political Order). Hans-Jorg Trenz is Professor in European Studies at the University of Copenhagen and adjunct Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main research interests are in the areas of media, communication and public sphere, civil society, European civilization and identity, migration and ethnic minorities, cultural and political sociology, social and political theory, democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union."

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