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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693810
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040545
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103177