European Public Spheres (Contemporary European Politics)
Cambridge University Press, 11/13/2014
EAN 9781107081659, ISBN10: 1107081653
Hardcover, 316 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
The Euro crisis has led to an unprecedented Europeanization and politicization of public spheres across the continent. In this volume, leading scholars make two claims. First, they suggest that transnational crossborder communication in Europe has been encouraged through the gradual Europeanization of national as well as issue-specific public spheres. Second, the politicization of European affairs - at the European Union (EU) level and in the domestic politics of member states - is inevitable and here to stay. Europeanized public spheres, whether elite media, mass media, or social media such as the internet, provide the arenas in which the politicization of European and EU issues takes place. European Public Spheres explores the history of these developments, the nature of politicization in the public spheres as well as its likely consequences, and the normative implications for European public life.
1. Introduction Thomas Risse
Part I. How to Grasp the Europeanization of Public Spheres
Theory, Methods, Empirics
2. Theorizing communication flows within a European public sphere Barbara Pfetsch and Annett Heft
3. How advanced is the Europeanization of public spheres? Comparing German and European structures of political communication Ruud Koopmans
4. National media as transnational discourse arenas
the case of humanitarian military interventions Cathleen Kantner
5. European issue publics online
the cases of climate change and fair trade W. Lance Bennett, Sabine Lang and Alexandra Segerberg
Part II. Consequences
Does the Europeanization of Public Spheres Matter?
6. European public spheres, the politicization of EU affairs, and its consequences Thomas Risse
7. Media and identity
the paradox of legitimacy and the making of European citizens Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter
8. The restructuring of political conflict in Europe and the politicization of European integration Edgar Grande and Hanspeter Kriesi
Part III. Theoretical and Normative Implications
9. Identity, Europe and the world beyond public spheres Jeffrey T. Checkel
10. Democracy, identity, and European public spheres Andreas Follesdal.