Béthoux Élodie, Erne Roland, Golden Darragh
IDHES École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
Roland Erne and Darragh Golden are at School of Business and Geary Institute for Public Policy University College Dublin.
Br J Ind Relat. 2018 Sep;56(3):656-678. doi: 10.1111/bjir.12303. Epub 2018 Mar 5.
We aim to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics that are driving EU politicization and the rising Euroscepticism of workers and unions in the public sphere. One explanation frames the rise in Euroscepticism in cultural terms, emphasizing workers' alleged primordial attachment to their nation. A second uses socioeconomic frames, linking growing Euroscepticism to the increasingly neo-liberal direction of the EU. The weight of these competing frames in the referendum campaigns on the EU Constitution in France and the Lisbon Treaty and the Fiscal Treaty in Ireland cannot be measured easily, as the categorization of a phrase as socioeconomic or cultural is in itself subject to political classification struggles. We therefore presents the findings of an lexical analysis of all , all and all worker- or union-related articles published in almost all national media outlets during the mentioned referendum debates. This was made possible by the software package that allowed us to analyse very large corpuses of articles inductively. Our analysis reveals that socioeconomic terms dominated policy debates in both countries. The findings question existing EU politicization studies that were measuring the salience of different frame types by deductive analysis.
我们旨在促进对推动欧盟政治化以及公众领域中工人和工会日益增长的欧洲怀疑主义的动态过程有更好的理解。一种解释从文化角度阐述欧洲怀疑主义的兴起，强调工人据称对其国家的原始依恋。另一种解释采用社会经济框架，将日益增长的欧洲怀疑主义与欧盟日益新自由主义的方向联系起来。在法国关于欧盟宪法、爱尔兰关于《里斯本条约》和《财政条约》的公投活动中，这些相互竞争的框架的影响力难以轻易衡量，因为将一个短语归类为社会经济或文化性质本身就受到政治分类斗争的影响。因此，我们展示了对在上述公投辩论期间几乎所有国家媒体上发表的所有与欧盟、所有与条约以及所有与工人或工会相关的文章进行词汇分析的结果。这借助一款软件包得以实现，该软件包使我们能够归纳性地分析大量文章语料库。我们的分析表明，社会经济术语在两国的政策辩论中占据主导地位。这些发现对现有的欧盟政治化研究提出了质疑，这些研究通过演绎分析来衡量不同框架类型的显著性。
