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
Band
24
Seiten
327-347
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
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
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