Overview
- Combines Euroscepticism and European communication literature
- Conceptualizes Euroscepticism in a broad perspective
- Integrates a complex array of social and political variables
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume focuses on the relationship between the media and European democracy, as important factors of EU legitimacy. The contributors show how the media play a crucial role in making European governance accountable, and how it can act as an intermediate link between citizens and their elected and unelected representatives.
The book focuses on widespread levels of Euroscepticism and the contemporary European crisis. The authors present empirical studies which problematize the role of traditional media coverage on EU attitudes. Comparisons are also drawn between traditional and new media in their influence on Euroscepticism. Furthermore, the authors analyse the impact of the internet and social media as new arenas in which Eurosceptic claims and positions can be made visible, as well as being a medium used by political parties and populist movements which contest Europe and its politics and policies.
Euroscepticism, Democracy and the Media will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in European politics, political parties, interest groups, social movements and political sociology.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor at the Institute of Scienze Umane e Sociali at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Florence, Italy. She has published widely on collective action and Europeanization and on right-wing extremism in Europe and the USA.
Simona Guerra is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK. Her main research interests focus on the domestic politics of EU integration, Euroscepticism and Populism, and Religion and Politics. Her publications include Central and Eastern European Attitudes in the Face of Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Euroscepticism, Democracy and the Media
Book Subtitle: Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe
Editors: Manuela Caiani, Simona Guerra
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59643-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59642-0Published: 02 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59643-7Published: 22 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 284
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Democracy, European Union Politics, European Politics