A window of opportunity? The relevance of the rotating European Union presidency in the public eye

Autor(en)

Hajo Boomgaarden, Olga Eisele, Tobias Heidenreich, Nina Kriegler, Kim Pamina Syed Ali

Abstrakt

The rotating EU presidency's relevance for EU politics has decreased since the introduction of a permanent council president. However, news salience and framing of the own government acting as the EU presidency can amplify publicity for EU affairs. We, therefore, evaluate the visibility and framing of the EU presidency in 12 Austrian newspapers for 2009–2019. We conduct an automated text analysis of 22 presidencies over 11 years, testing several hypotheses statistically, and qualify results via manually coded frames of the Austrian EU presidency in 2018. The results confirm the crucial importance of the domestication of EU politics, underscoring the potential of the presidency to serve as a window of opportunity for public debate. We discuss our findings with reference to the EU's democratic deficit.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Amsterdam (UvA), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Universität Zürich (UZH)

Journal

European Union Politics

Anzahl der Seiten

21

ISSN

1465-1165

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221142504

Publikationsdatum

12-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 506011 Politische Geschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Health(social science), Demography, Political Science and International Relations

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/a-window-of-opportunity-the-relevance-of-the-rotating-european-union-presidency-in-the-public-eye(1a0f8a39-2c72-48a1-b656-bcde8ba548d6).html