ENGAGING EU CITIZENS

"How to involve the European citizenry in European politics? Emotions, media discourse, and mobilisation."

 Coordinatore FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN 

 Organization address address: Kaiserswertherstrasse 16-18
city: BERLIN
postcode: 14195

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Peggy
Cognome: Martin
Email: send email
Telefono: 493084000000
Fax: 493084000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Germany [DE]
 Totale costo 162˙163 €
 EC contributo 162˙163 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-01-01   -   2016-05-28

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN

 Organization address address: Kaiserswertherstrasse 16-18
city: BERLIN
postcode: 14195

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Peggy
Cognome: Martin
Email: send email
Telefono: 493084000000
Fax: 493084000000

DE (BERLIN) coordinator 162˙163.20

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mobilisation    switzerland    mobilisations    discourse    theory    structure    circumstances    citizens    emotionally    engaging    participation    mass    politics    media    political    loaded    variables    levels   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The research project sets out to describe the mechanism that explains how political entrepreneurs created mass mobilisations by engaging European citizens against Haider's FPÖ, against the Bolkestein directive, and against Turkish membership. The lack of citizen participation is often assumed to be the main problem of democracy at the European level. The recent mass mobilisations are puzzling, as not much has changed in the circumstances that were thought to cause the apathy of citizens towards European politics. Contrary to the actor- and structure-centred accounts found in the European integration literature, this research project focuses on the activating quality of emotionally-loaded media discourse by incorporating insights from media effect theory and collective action theory. While it is known how citizens become politically engaged with national politics, the peculiarity of multi-level European decision-making, and, especially, the profoundly different political opportunity structure for mobilisation on European issues need to be taken into account.

Knowledge on the necessary circumstances for engaging citizens with European politics is elicited by comparing three issues with high levels of mobilisation to three similar issues with low levels of mobilisation. Media discourse and citizens' political behaviour in Germany, France and Switzerland is analysed via a qualitative and quantitative content analysis and by consulting social movement databases. The non-EU Switzerland serves as a validity check. Subsequently, an experiment with a pre-test/post-test design is held to test the main independent variables related to emotionally-loaded media discourse, while controlling for the relevant intervening variables. By disclosing whether politicisation is the prerogative of Eurosceptics, or may lead to the kind of contestation beneficial to democratic politics, this interdisciplinary project will disclose the prospects for civic participation in European politics.'

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