Eisele Olga, Heidenreich Tobias, Kriegler Nina, Syed Ali Pamina, Boomgaarden Hajo G
Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria; Department of Communication, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany.
Eur Union Polit. 2023 Jun;24(2):327-347. doi: 10.1177/14651165221142504. Epub 2022 Dec 4.
The rotating EU presidency's relevance for EU politics has decreased since the introduction of a permanent council president. However, news salience and framing of the own government acting as the EU presidency can amplify publicity for EU affairs. We, therefore, evaluate the visibility and framing of the EU presidency in 12 Austrian newspapers for 2009-2019. We conduct an automated text analysis of 22 presidencies over 11 years, testing several hypotheses statistically, and qualify results via manually coded frames of the Austrian EU presidency in 2018. The results confirm the crucial importance of the domestication of EU politics, underscoring the potential of the presidency to serve as a window of opportunity for public debate. We discuss our findings with reference to the EU's democratic deficit.
自设立常任理事会主席以来，轮值欧盟主席国对欧盟政治的相关性有所下降。然而，本国政府担任欧盟主席国时的新闻显著性和框架设定能够扩大对欧盟事务的宣传。因此，我们评估了2009年至2019年期间奥地利12家报纸对欧盟主席国的曝光度和框架设定。我们对11年里的22任主席国进行了自动化文本分析，对若干假设进行了统计检验，并通过对2018年奥地利担任欧盟主席国时的框架进行手动编码来验证结果。结果证实了欧盟政治本土化的至关重要性，强调了主席国作为公众辩论机会窗口的潜力。我们结合欧盟的民主赤字来讨论我们的研究结果。
