The Euro-Crisis as a Catalyst of the Europeanization of Public Spheres? A Cross-Temporal Study of the Netherlands and Germany

Meijers, Maurits J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2276845

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“…This debate has also become particularly prominent in light of the euro‐crisis. The emergence of different social and political tensions that have been undermining, rather than favouring, social solidarity is quite significant in light of the discussion addressed in this paper, with a clash, for example going on between different parts of Europe as a result of the austerity measures (Degryse et al ; Lodge & Sarikaris ; Meijers ). This provides evidence of the ambiguous nature of the European social model and the fragmented nature of the European public sphere.…”

Section: The Public Sphere Debate: Social Political and Cultural Intmentioning

confidence: 91%

Transnationalisation, Public Communication and Active Citizenship. The Emergence of a Fragmented and Fluid European Public Sphere

Bee¹

2014

Sociology Compass

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This paper is focused on the emergence of the European public sphere debate. This discussion has become more and more prominent between scholars of European Studies who have given it both normative and empirical attention. This is due to a variety of reasons, but in particular the increase in research about the legitimacy of European integration, which has been the subject of a wide debate since at least the beginning of the 1990s. Firstly, the article critically assesses the normative arguments that have supported the development of the European public sphere, by focusing on the social, political and cultural dimensions of European integration. After having assessed this debate and underlined current challenges emerged in light of recent events (such as the euro-crisis, the rise of euroscepticism and the rise in far right movements), the article then introduces the empirical research on the europeanisation of the public sphere, by looking at the development of an agenda that has more and more concentrated on the fragmentation and fluidity of such construct. This discussion is key to introduce the final part of the article, which focuses on the role of civil society in the broader European constituency and in the public sphere. The article highlights some of the ambiguities inherent to the current research agenda, by calling for a more comprehensive approach to study active citizenship in Europe that departs from a consideration of the NGOs activists as the main locus of analysis.

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Section: The Public Sphere Debate: Social Political and Cultural Intmentioning

confidence: 91%

Transnationalisation, Public Communication and Active Citizenship. The Emergence of a Fragmented and Fluid European Public Sphere

Bee¹

2014

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“…Taken together, this would require Twitter users in one or more countries to be tweeting about EU politics, and/or issues and events pertaining to other member states. As Europeanization is said to be event driven, we would expect cross-national Twitter activity to align around key European events, such as elections or EU summits (Meijers, 2013; see Table 1).…”

Section: Conceptualizing a European Public Sphere Facilitated Throughmentioning

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Can social media facilitate a European public sphere? Transnational communication and the Europeanization of Twitter during the Eurozone crisis

Hänska

Bauchowitz

2019

Social Media + Society

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Asking whether social media can plausibly facilitate a European public sphere, this article provides the first operationalization and empirical examination of Europeanization of social media communications. It maps the geospatial structure of Twitter activity around Greece’s 2015 bailout negotiations. We find that Twitter activity showed clear signs of Europeanization. Twitter users across Europe tweeted about the bailout negotiations and coalesced around shared grievances. Furthermore, Twitter activity was remarkably transnational in orientation, as users interacted more often with users in other European Union (EU) countries than with domestic ones. As such, social media allowed users to communicate with one another unencumbered by national boundaries, to bring into existence an ad hoc, issue-based European public sphere.

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“…Based on these elements, we hypothesize that the polarization of opinions about EU matters could be considered as an indicator of Europeanization of the national public sphere. For the sake of our investigation, we also build on the idea of crisis as 'a catalyst of the Europeanization of public spheres' from Merijes (2013). As explained in the previous section, the EPS is the space of contact between the EU and its citizens, but its impact is not uniform among EU member states because it is influenced by both internal and external factors, such as the type of media, the EU's institutional design and specific events.…”

Section: The Eu's Crises As 'Catalysts Of Europeanization'? Some Mementioning

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Eu Crises as ‘Catalysts of Europeanization’? Insights From Eurobarometer Data in Romania on the Impact of the Refugee Crisis and Brexit

Troncotă¹,

Loy²

2018

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For the last decade, the EU was confronted with an unprecedented series of subsequent and often overlapping crises -the constitutional crisis, the Euro crisis, the massive influx of migrants and refugees and last but not least, the Brexit referendum. They were all very different in structure, but they had a common element -they put to test the European Union's (EU) legitimacy. The main assumption of the study is that these recent crises in the EU directly influence the debates in the national public spheres, and affect the way in which solidarity among EU citizens and EU states is imagined and enacted in media. Thus, the study aims to explain variation in the Romanian public opinion for the period 2014 to 2017. It identifies exogenous factors that relate to the EU polity, its policies and national politics and how they shaped public debate in Romania around two main Pan-European crises -the refugee crisis and Brexit. The paper discusses the impact of the two crises on the Romanians' level of trust in EU institutions and assesses possible causes of this 'superficial Euro-enthusiasm' on the overall context of the Europeanization of public sphere in Romania. The findings are discussed in light of three main conditions of a Europeanized

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The Euro-Crisis as a Catalyst of the Europeanization of Public Spheres? A Cross-Temporal Study of the Netherlands and Germany

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

Transnationalisation, Public Communication and Active Citizenship. The Emergence of a Fragmented and Fluid European Public Sphere

Transnationalisation, Public Communication and Active Citizenship. The Emergence of a Fragmented and Fluid European Public Sphere

Can social media facilitate a European public sphere? Transnational communication and the Europeanization of Twitter during the Eurozone crisis

Eu Crises as ‘Catalysts of Europeanization’? Insights From Eurobarometer Data in Romania on the Impact of the Refugee Crisis and Brexit

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