TY  - JOUR
TI  - The legitimation of the European Union in the news media: three treaty reform debates
AU  - Hurrelmann, Achim
AU  - Gora, Anna
AU  - Wagner, Andrea
PY  - 2013
PB  - Taylor and Francis, Abingdon UK
LA  - eng
KW  - Law
KW  - Austria
KW  - European Union
KW  - News
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Treaties
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Constitutions
KW  - Germany
AB  - The news media is a major forum for the discursive legitimation of the EU. This article analyses media debates in the context of three attempts at reforming EU primary law in the past decade: the Nice Treaty; the Constitutional Treaty; and the Lisbon Treaty. Focusing on four member states -- the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Austria -- our study shows that the EU's legitimacy is discursively constructed according to distinct patterns, most of which are remarkably similar across countries and stable over time. In the context of the EU Constitution, legitimation debates became more intensive and more critical; however, these developments were largely reversed when the Lisbon Treaty was debated. This suggests that, in the media arena, the much-discussed politicization of European integration is an episodic occurrence, rather than a unidirectional trend. Adapted from the source document.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2012.726478
DO  - 10.1080/13501763.2012.726478
T2  - Journal of European public policy
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
SN  - 1466-4429
SN  - 1350-1763
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/sw-cdfde88eb4e6e2b4
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -