Download full text
(1.096Mb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83410-2
Exports for your reference manager
A window of opportunity? The relevance of the rotating European Union presidency in the public eye
[journal article]
Abstract 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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
EU-presidency; rotation; EU policy; reporting
Classification
European Politics
Free Keywords
Austria; automated content analysis; manual content analysis; media coverage; rotating EU presidency
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-21
Journal
European Union Politics (2022) OnlineFirst
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221142504
ISSN
1741-2757
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed