Europeans and the Public Sphere : Communication without Community?

Intro -- Contents -- PART ONE INTRODUCTION -- 1 Democracy: The Unfinished Project of European Integration -- Introduction -- Purpose &amp -- Ambition -- Contribution to European Public Sphere Research -- Research Design -- Overview of Chapters -- 2 Communicative Spaces between Communication and Community -- A Thought Experiment -- What Kind of European Public Sphere? -- The Public Sphere Deficit: A Democratic Deficit? -- Preconditions for Transnational Debate: Two Clichés -- Communication versus Community: 'Identity Light' and Beyond? -- Bringing Agency Back In -- 3 Communication vs. Community: An Ontological Critique-and Beyond -- Introduction -- Communication and Community: Two Perspectives on Meaningful Communication -- An Ontological Critique: 'Identity Light' and beyond -- Summary: Public Spheres between Communication and Community? -- 4 Connecting the Dots: Daily Newspapers and Transnational Debate -- Introduction -- Selection of Cases -- Studying Transnational Communication: An Analytical Framework -- Summary -- PART TWO DAILY NEWSPAPERS AND EU CONSTITUTION MAKING -- 5 Intergovernmental, Supranational or Postnational? Daily Newspapers' Views on European Integration and EU Democracy -- Introduction -- Three Perspectives on European Integration and the Future of Democracy -- The Intergovernmental/Supranational Intersection -- The Postnational/Supranational Intersection -- What kind of transnational debate can be expected? -- 6 The Finality Debate -- Introduction -- Frames: What's at stake in the finality debate? -- Permeability: Domestic and Non-Domestic Authors in the German and Swedish Debates -- Transnational Engagement in the Two Debates -- The German and Swedish Finality Debates: Transnational Debate? -- 7 Constitutional Ratification Crisis -- Introduction -- Frames: What's at stake in the ratification-crisis debate?.

Permeability: Domestic and Non-Domestic Authors in the Two Debates -- Transnational Engagement in the Two Debates -- The German and Swedish 'Ratification-Crisis' Debates-Transnational Debate? -- 8 The Relaunch of the Constitutional Process -- Introduction -- Frames: What's at stake in the debate? -- Permeability: Domestic and Non-Domestic Authors in the Two Debates -- Transnational Engagement in the Two Debates -- The German and Swedish 'Relaunch' Debates: Transnational Debate? -- PART THREE CONCLUSION -- 9 Communication and Community Revisited -- Introduction -- General Review of Findings -- Communication and Community Revisited -- Revisiting the study's methodological approach -- The Road Ahead: From Communicative Freedom to Communicative Power? -- References -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1 Interview Guide -- Appendix 2 Code Book -- Appendix 3 Examples of coded quotations -- Appendix 4 Examples of frames -- Appendix 4a Coded Articles, Finality Debate -- Appendix 4bCoded Articles, Ratification-Crisis Debate -- Appendix 4cCoded Articles, Relaunch Debate.

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