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Denouncing European Integration. Euroscepticism as reactive identity formation
Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 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/10008611107
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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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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 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/10010734487
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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 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/10010734499
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Elements of a sociology of European integration
Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008
How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040207
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The EU’s fledgling society: From deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution making
Fossum, John Erik; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005
The European Union is presently at a major crossroads. The Laeken process which launched the EU onto an explicit constitution-making process, has ground to a halt after the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands. The European Council at its 16-17 June 2005 meeting decided to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040309
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In Search of The European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstretch and Empirical Disenchantment
Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 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/10005040335
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040536
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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