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THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL MOBILISATION AND COMMUNICATION IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERES
EUROPUB.COM Funded in European Union Framework Five.
Started in September 2001, this project is now being completed.
The objective of the Europub.com project was to provide the first comprehensive, empirically grounded study on the role of the public sphere, and particularly of the media and collective mobilisation, in the European integration process. The guiding hypothesis was that the Europeanisation of public spheres depends on the nature of multi-level governance, on one side, and media processing, on the other. The design had three comparative dimensions: across countries (D, F, UK, I, E, NL, CH plus the EU-level), over time, and across policy fields. Along these dimensions, we gathered primary data on claims-making by collective actors, newspaper editorials, from newspapers, as well as internet sites, and interviewed several hundred collective actors and media professionals.
A final volume is being produced under the title 'Making Europe Public' Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham eds. that brings all the analyses together into a single volume. In addition a number of scholarly journal articles have been produced, see publications of Paul Statham.
To download a short executive summary of the Europub.com project findings, click here: exec_summary.pdf
The project also has a dedicated website http://europub.wzb.eu/, hosted by the WZB Berlin. Project reports, including the final report, and publications can be downloaded from the Europub project website. The project's initial proposal (by Koopmans and Statham) is also available for downloading. europub.pdf
For further information contact Paul Statham
European partner institutions working on the project are:
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Organisation |
Lead contact |
Country |
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WZB - Berlin |
Dr. Ruud Koopmans |
D |
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University of Leeds - EurPolCom |
Dr. Paul Statham |
UK |
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SPO-Genève - Geneva |
Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Kriesi |
CH |
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Università degli Studi di Firenze - Florence |
Prof. Dr. Donatella della Porta |
I |
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UvA - Amsterdam |
Prof. Dr. Jos de Beus |
NL |
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CRAPS - Lille |
Dr. Virginie Guiraudon |
F |
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ASEP - Madrid |
Prof. Dr. Juan Diéz Medrano |
E |
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