Political legitimacy and the invisibility of politics: Exploring the European Union's communication deficit
Political legitimacy and the invisibility of politics: Exploring the European Union's communication deficit
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10.1111/1468-5965.00199
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1999-12-01
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Meyer, C
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Meyer, C
关于欧洲联盟（欧盟）合法性赤字的辩论迄今为止很少关注政治沟通在合法化治理中的作用。欧盟委员会的辞职凸显了沟通失败的后果，并指出了媒体在欧盟事务中的新作用。本文分析和评估了欧盟委员会的媒体沟通，并将其置于欧盟更广泛的机构设置和决策程序的背景下。文章认为，该委员会的公共传播受到政治权威分散、普遍存在的技术官僚心态和缺乏足够人员的影响。然而，更重要的是，委员会所处的治理体系使冲突非政治化，并模糊了政治责任。会员国利用这一制度来规避公众监督，并将公众的不满外化于委员会。
The debate about the legitimacy deficit of the European Union (EU) has so far devoted little attention to the role of political communication in legitimating governance. The resignation of the Commission has highlighted the consequences of communicative failure and points to the new role of the media in EU affairs. The article analyses and evaluates the Commission's media communication and places it in the context of the EU's broader institutional set-up and decision-making procedures. The article argues that the Commission's public communication suffers from the fragmentation of political authority, a pervading technocratic mindset and a lack of adequate staffing. More importantly, however, the Commission is located within a system of governance which depoliticizes conflict and obfuscates political accountability. This system has been used by Member States to circumvent public scrutiny and externalize public dissatisfaction to the Commission.