A window of opportunity? The relevance of the rotating European Union presidency in the public eye
- Author(s)
- Hajo Boomgaarden, Olga Eisele, Tobias Heidenreich, Nina Kriegler, Kim Pamina Syed Ali
- Abstract
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.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication
- External organisation(s)
- University of Amsterdam (UvA), Center for Civil Society Research, Universität Zürich (UZH)
- Journal
- European Union Politics
- Volume
- 24
- Pages
- 327-347
- No. of pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 1465-1165
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221142504
- Publication date
- 12-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508007 Communication science, 506011 Political history
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science), Demography, Political Science and International Relations
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/a-window-of-opportunity-the-relevance-of-the-rotating-european-union-presidency-in-the-public-eye(1a0f8a39-2c72-48a1-b656-bcde8ba548d6).html