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Segmented Europeanization: Exploring the Legitimacy of the European Union from a Public Discourse Perspective*
Author(s) -
SIFFT STEFANIE,
BRÜGGEMANN MICHAEL,
KÖNIGSLÖW KATHARINA KLEINENV.,
PETERS BERNHARD,
WIMMEL ANDREAS
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00706.x
Subject(s) - legitimation , scrutiny , legitimacy , european union , newspaper , political science , public discourse , perspective (graphical) , discourse analysis , corporate governance , subject (documents) , critical discourse analysis , political economy , sociology , law , linguistics , business , international trade , philosophy , finance , artificial intelligence , politics , ideology , library science , computer science
The article presents the results of a longitudinal newspaper analysis on the Europeanization of public discourses in five EU countries. It shows that European governance is increasingly subject to public scrutiny, but neither has a common discourse in Europe developed nor has the communication lag of the EU disappeared. Therefore the EU remains largely dependent on domestic processes of legitimation.