The European Union and the Public Sphere : A Communicative Space in the Making? (Hardcover)

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-Jorg 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 Agnes Renyi

10. Religion and the European public sphere
Francois Foret and Philip Schlesinger

11. The public sphere in European constitution-making
John Erik Fossum and Hans-Jorg 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

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