1st Edition
The European Union and the Public Sphere A Communicative Space in the Making?
1. The European Union and the public sphere: a communicative space in the making?
John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger
PART I: Communicative practices and a European public sphere
Philip Schlesinger and John Erik Fossum
2. Conceptualizing European public spheres: general, segmented and strong publics
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
3. The public sphere and European democracy: mechanisms of democratization in the transnational situation
Klaus Eder
4. A fragile cosmopolitanism: on the unresolved ambiguities of the European public sphere
Philip Schlesinger
PART II: Assessing Europe’s general public(s)
Philip Schlesinger and John Erik Fossum
5. ‘Quo vadis Europe?’ Quality newspapers struggling for European unity
Hans-Jörg Trenz
6. Political communication, European integration and the transformation of national public spheres: a comparison of Britain and France
Paul Statham
7. The European void: the democratic deficit as a cultural deficiency
Abram de Swaan
8. Political integration in Europe and the need for a common political language
Lars Chr. Blichner
9. EU enlargement, identity and the public sphere
Maria Heller and Ágnes Rényi
10. Religion and the European public sphere
François Foret and Philip Schlesinger
11. The public sphere in European constitution-making
John Erik Fossum and Hans-Jörg Trenz
PART III: Institutional conditions and the European context
John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger
12. European commissioners and the prospects of a European public sphere: information, representation and legitimacy
Andy Smith
13. Transparency, audiences and the evolving role of the EU Council of Ministers
Deirdre Curtin
14. Transnationalising the public sphere? The European Parliament, promises and anticipations
Ulrike Liebert
15. Conclusion
Philip Schlesinger and John Erik Fossum
Bibliography
Biography
John Erik Fossum is Professor of Political Science at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, and Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Philip Schlesinger is Professor of Cultural Policy in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, UK.
