We present a broad overview on the Swiss interest group population and the results of a quantitative online survey on the communication repertoire of 985 interest groups. We then discuss sample construction and the different addressees of interest group communication, the perceived relevance of mass media channels, and which instruments and measures are used to communicate with external and internal environments. We identify four different logics -influence, support, reputation and reciprocity -that influence the communication activities of political intermediaries such as interest groups. We present a broad overview on the Swiss interest group population and the results of a quantitative online survey on the communication repertoire of 985 interest groups. We then discuss sample construction and the different addressees of interest group communication, the perceived relevance of mass media channels, and which instruments and measures are used to communicate with external and internal environments. We identify four different logics -influence, support, reputation and reciprocity -that influence the communication activities of political intermediaries such as interest groups.
This article explores the contentiousness of European integration in the process of constitution-making. A public sphere perspective is introduced which relates the legitimacy of the emerging EU polity to the constraining and/or enabling context of mass media communication. Starting from an outline of constitutional claims-making in quality newspapers in France and Germany between 2001 and 2005, the article focuses on ratification as a period of intense politicization of EU constitutional affairs. In spite of high media salience, the data indicate only few instances of inter-discursive exchanges across borders. The French referendum had a clear effect on domesticating constitutional contention in France, and became a substitute for raising the constitutional issue in German newspapers, notwithstanding the lack of domestic contention. In both countries perceptions of legitimacy were primarily based on notions of the EU as a problem-solving arrangement with few references to common values and democracy.
Zusammenfassung: der organisierten Zivilgesellschaft wird im europäischen Verfassungsprozess eine zentrale Rolle zugeschrieben: neben ihren traditionellen Aufgaben als Partner des Regierens tritt Zivilgesellschaft nun primär als Konstituent politischer Ordnung in erscheinung. damit stellen sich die Fragen, wie sich zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen als voice in europäi-sche entscheidungsprozesse einbringen und wie sie ihre Ansprüche begründen, die europäischen bürger im Verfassungsprozess zu vertreten. dieser Artikel entwirft einen analytischen Rahmen und ein methodisches Vorgehen, um Zivilgesellschaft in ihrer Rolle als Konstituent zu fassen und zu analysieren. diese Forschungsagenda nimmt bezug auf die Vermittlungs- und Repräsentations-funktion der organisierten Zivilgesellschaft als Transmissionsriemen für legitimationsdiskurse der eu. um rekonstruieren zu können, wie potenzielle Interessen, Identitäten und normative Ideen im eu-Verfassungsprozess von den Vertretern der Zivilgesellschaft thematisiert und bewertet werden, untersuchen wir deutsche Zivilgesellschaftsorganisationen aus drei bereichen: a) Verbraucherschutzorganisationen, b) Kirchen, religiöse und säkulare Organisationen sowie c) gender- und gleichstellungspolitische gruppen. Schlüsselwörter: Zivilgesellschaft · europäische union · Repräsentation · Verfassung · legitimitätOrganized civil society within the European constitional process: partner in governance or constituent of an emerging polity? Abstract: A new role has been ascribed to civil society within the eu-constitutional process. It is not only regarded as a partner in governance but also as a constituent of the emerging eupolity. Civil society appears in this process primarily as the structure of voice that is articulated berlin © VS-Verlag 2009 h.-J. Trenz () Arena-universität Oslo, blindern 0317, P.O. box 1143 Oslo, norwegen e-Mail: h.j.t@arena.uio.no n. bernhard · e. Jentges berlin, deutschland 354 h.-J. Trenz et al.in relation to eu-governance and that claims to represent european citizens. The article proposes an analytical framework and a methodology of how to analyze civil society in its role as constituency. The research agenda is linked to the intermediary and the representative function of organised civil society as a transmission belt of legitimatory discourse on the eu. In order to reconstruct how potential interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of a eu constitutional order are contested within national politics, our research draws on a survey of german civil society organisations in three sectors: a) consumer interest organisations, b) churches and religious organisations, and c) women and gender equality groups.La société civile organisée dans le processus constitutionnel de l'UE: partenaire des institutions ou partie constituante de l'ordre politique? Résumé: On prête à la société civile organisée un rôle central dans le processus constitutionnel européen: outre ses fonctions traditionnelles de partenaire des institutions, la société civile ...
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