popular subjectness. By drawing on a comparative media survey of constitutional debates from 2002-2007, the paper …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the media debates concerning ratification of the Treaty establishing a … empirical basis for the paper are the results of an extensive media content analysis of ratification debates in six countries … Europe. New media coverage of the EU is affected by problems of a lack of professionalisation, training, resources and …

framework is developed distinguishing between the critical and the representative function of media opinion-making. Journalists …

international conflict management. Has the media in the EU Member States reflected this change? Our study reveals that the EU …, despite its limited institutional capacity in external security affairs, is present in media cover-age on international … appropriate media perception of EU foreign and security policy and to an emerging European problem-solving community. The study is …

mass media constitute the core framework in the transnationalisation of the public sphere. This paper argues that such an …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between media coverage of EU policy-formulation and the … parliaments in EU policy-formulation is unrelated to media coverage, that media strengthen the hand of backbenchers and opposition …, or that media reinforce executive dominance. However, the mechanisms underlying these expectations are not mutually …