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Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

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In Search of the European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstrech and Empirical Disenchantment

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2008

which should be used to assess the legitimacy of European integration. In descriptive terms, the European public sphere is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040525

On Political Representation: Myths and Challenges

Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Emmanuel … - RECON - 2009

In this paper we critically reassess the standard account of political representation, in order to question the mythical foundation of its premises and explain why it can no longer serve as an adequate explanatory framework in the modern political context. We argue that representation was not...

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Civil society and EU constitution-making: Towards a European social constituency?

Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Bernhard, Nadine; Jentges, Erik - RECON - 2009

discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …

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Measuring Europeanisation of public communication: The question of standards

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2007

The emergence of a pan-European public sphere as a correlate of democratic governance in the EU is held to be difficult, if not impossible. This has shifted the research agenda to the Europeanisation of public and media communication. The European public sphere light is observed by measuring...

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Denouncing European integration: Euroscepticism as reactive identity formation

Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Wilde, Pieter de - RECON - 2009

The spreading phenomenon of Euroscepticism relates to particular discursive formations within the battlefield of collective identities that is opened by European integration. This paper first aims to highlight the reactionary nature of Euroscepticism. Secondly, it argues for understanding...

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