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The role of national parties for the politicization of EU integration

国家政党在欧盟一体化政治化中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
228518710
负责人：
Professorin Dr. Michaela Maier
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/228518710?language=en
关键词：
role national parties politicization EU

项目摘要

The overall aim of the project is to investigate whether and if yes under which conditions and how national parties contribute to the politicization of EU integration. Politicization hereby means that a topic turns into an issue as it is put on the public agenda and positions are voiced. To understand the process of politicization we study the interplay between national parties as issue entrepreneurs, issue environments, i.e. the overall party as well as the media agenda, and parties as issue traditionalists. We assume that Euroskeptic parties are most likely to act as issue entrepreneurs which strategically mobilize on new policy issues that have been largely ignored by the political mainstream and adopt a policy position on the issue that is substantially different from the current position of the mainstream, vgl. Hobolt and de Vries, 2011, S. 3. Beyond, we expect that the strategic behavior of issue entrepreneurs under certain circumstances will affect the issue environments, i.e. the overall party agenda as well as the mass media agenda. These changes in issue environments may force issue traditionalists, the pro-European mainstream parties, to react. They may either try to silence the issue or they may start voicing their own positions or adopt the new positions brought up by issue entrepreneurs. Empirically, we study the dynamic nature of politicization-processes by conducting a quantitative content analysis of parties strategic communication - press releases and televised campaign spots - and media reporting in a twelve-month period preceding the 2014 European elections. The project thereby applies a comparative research design including Austria, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom in order to permit the analysis of the relevance of the party system and of other country-context factors for politicization processes. With our study on politicization processes, we contribute to our understanding of the future of European integration: On the one hand public debates about European issues are often regarded as a prerequisite for a European democracy whereas on the other hand such a politicization might challenge long-established mechanisms of policy-making within the European Union. Beyond, our findings shed light on the process of politicization and evolution of issues as such. Here we tackle the core research deficits in this area by linking theories of parties strategic behavior with agenda-setting and by taking into account the dynamic and conditional nature of such politicization processes.

该项目的总体目标是调查国家政党是否以及在何种条件下以及如何促进欧盟一体化的政治化。因此，政治化意味着一个话题在被提上公共议程和表达立场时变成一个问题。为了理解政治化的过程，我们研究了国家政党作为问题企业家，问题环境，即整体政党和媒体议程，以及作为问题传统主义者的政党之间的相互作用。我们假设，欧洲怀疑党最有可能充当问题企业家，战略性地动员新的政策问题，这些问题在很大程度上被政治主流所忽视，并在这个问题上采取与主流vgl当前立场截然不同的政策立场。Hobolt and de弗里斯，2011，S. 3.此外，我们预期议题企业家在特定情况下的策略行为会影响议题环境，即整体政党议程以及大众媒体议程。这些问题环境的变化可能会迫使问题传统主义者、亲欧洲的主流政党做出反应。他们可能会试图压制这个问题，或者他们可能会开始表达自己的立场，或者采取问题企业家提出的新立场。从经验上讲，我们研究的动态性质的政治化进程进行定量内容分析的政党战略沟通-新闻稿和电视广告的竞选广告-和媒体报道在2014年欧洲大选前的12个月内。因此，该项目采用比较研究设计，包括奥地利、德国、希腊、荷兰、瑞典、联合王国，以便分析政党制度和其他国家背景因素对政治化进程的相关性。通过对政治化进程的研究，我们有助于理解欧洲一体化的未来：一方面，关于欧洲问题的公开辩论通常被视为欧洲民主的先决条件，而另一方面，这种政治化可能会挑战欧盟内部长期建立的决策机制。除此之外，我们的调查结果揭示了政治化的过程和问题本身的演变。在这里，我们解决了核心研究赤字在这一领域的政党战略行为理论与政党设置，并考虑到这种政治化过程的动态和条件的性质。