9-10 nov 2010: Globalization and Changing Patterns in the Public Sphere
T he 4th International Conference, organized by The Center for Research
in Communication, The Faculty of Communication and Public Relations
and the Fullbrigh Commission, Romania;
Keynote speakers:
- Claes H. de
Vreese (Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of
Amsterdam)
- Martin Löffelholz
(Institute of Media and Communication Science of Ilmenau University
of Technology)
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08 septembrie 2009: New publications availabe online from RECON:
Denouncing European Integration: Euroscepticism as reactive
identity formation
Hans-Jörg Trenz and Pieter de Wilde
Abstract: This paper highlights the reactionary nature
of Euroscepticism, argues for understanding Euroscepticism as a discursive
formation in the public sphere and points to the media as central
players and amplifiers of Euroscepticism. Hans-Jörg Trenz and Pieter
de Wilde argue that in order to describe the dynamics of Euroscepticism,
we need to understand how the polity worth of the EU is framed in
public debates and how and by whom Eurosceptic narratives are mobilized,
and we need to account for the public resonance of Euroscepticism
and its dynamic expansion (the public salience of Euroscepticism).
Designing Politicization: How control mechanisms in
national parliaments affect parliamentary debates in EU policy-formulation
Pieter de Wilde
Abstract: In this paper, Pieter de Wilde asks how
ex ante and ex post control mechanisms structuring the involvement
of national parliaments in EU policy-formulation affect the size and
scope of conflict of parliamentary debates. The direct and indirect
effects of control mechanisms are assessed in a comparative case study
on plenary parliamentary debates in the Danish Folketing and Dutch
Tweede Kamer on the EU multiannual budgets, Delors II, Agenda 2000
and Financial Perspectives 2007-2013.
Explicating social action: Arguing or bargaining?
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Abstract: In this paper it is argued that reasons
and norms must be given explanatory force in social action. This requires
methodological individualism expanded to methodological interactionism,
where promises appear not merely as bargaining chips, arguing as more
than an aggregation device and normative questions not as irrational.
Because both arguing and strategic communication exist, and it is
as hard to identify the former as the latter, one should not let one
take precedence over the other on theoretical grounds. The problem,
according to Erik O. Eriksen, is not theoretical, but methodological.
Civil society and EU constitution-making: Towards a
European social constituency?
Hans-Jörg Trenz, Nadine Bernhard and Erik Jentges
Abstract: The EU constitutional process has ascribed
a new role to civil society not only as a partner in governance but
also as a constituent of the emerging EU polity. Hans-Jörg Trenz,
Nadine Bernhard and Erik Jentges propose an analytical framework and
a methodology of how to analyze civil society as 'social constituency'.
The research agenda is linked to the intermediary and the representative
function of organized civil society as a transmission belt of legitimatory
discourse on the EU.
The RECON Online Working Paper Series is available at:
http://www.reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/RECONWorkingPapers.html