Politicizing European Integration: Struggling with the Awakening Giant (Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century)

This Book Offers A Comprehensive Treatment Of The Timely Question Of The Politicization Of European Integration. It Shows How This Issue's Complex Linkages With Traditional Political Divides Pose A Tough Challenge To Politicians And Lead To Bitter Framing Contests About Its Actual Meaning. -- List Of Tables List Of Figures Preface And Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Scope And Distinguishing Features Of This Study 2. Outline Of The Book Part Ii: The Challenging Politicization Of A Multi-faceted Issue 3. A Comprehensive Approach To Studying Politicization 4. Politicians' Strategies For Politicizing Europe 5. Disentangling The European Integration Issue 6. European Integration And The General Political Space Part Iii: Public Debates As A Source Of Political Data 7. Why Public Debates Matter For The Study Of Politics 8. From Newspaper Articles To Political Data -- Nuclear-sentence Coding 9. Validity And Reliability Of Mass Media Data 10. The Six Western European Countries Under Examination 11. Conclusion Part Iv: Dynamics And Participants Of The Public Debate On Europe 12. Institutional Events As Main Drivers Of The European Integration Debate 13. The Content Of The Debate -- Deepening And Enlargement As Main Concerns 14. The Standing Of Political Actors -- Party Politicians In Control Of Europe 15. Conclusion Part V: How European Integration Orientations Are Structured 16. Three Models To Explain European Integration Orientations 17. Beyond The Inverted U-curve -- Orientations Towards A Disentangled European Issue 18. Conclusion Part Vi: To Speak Or Not To Speak Of Europe: Issue-emphasised Strategies 19. Why Politicians (de- )emphasize European Integration 20. European Integration Issue Emphasis In Election Campaigns 21. Which Europe Do You Mean? European Integration Sub-issue Emphasis 22. Conclusion Part Vii: The Framing Of European Integration 23. Frame Analysis And The Study Of European Integration Politics 24. What Europe Is All About -- Empirical Results Of The Frame Analysis 25. Conclusion Part Viii: Wide Awake Or Fast Asleep? The Limited Politicization Of Europe 26. A Political Issue That Can Rock The Boat? -- Measuring The Politicization Of Europe 27. Conclusion Part Ix: Conclusion Appendix: Additional Tables Endnotes References. Dominic Hoeglinger (senior Research And Teaching Associate, Department Of Political Science, University Of Zurich, Switzerland). Includes Bibliographical References (pages 158-170) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-10 The Challenging Politicization of a Multi-Faceted Issue....Pages 11-29 Public Debates as a Source of Political Data....Pages 30-41 Dynamics and Participants of the Public Debate on Europe....Pages 42-59 How European Integration Orientations Are Structured....Pages 60-80 To Speak or Not to Speak of Europe — Issue-Emphasis Strategies....Pages 81-99 The Framing of European Integration....Pages 100-124 Wide Awake or Fast Asleep? — The Limited Politicization of Europe....Pages 125-138 Conclusion....Pages 139-149 Back Matter....Pages 150-173