00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003280 20221014094303 0010-0520003280 221014################|##########|#eng## 9780415384568 eng 302.2 302.2 THE The European Union and the Public Sphere The European Union and the Public Sphere : A Communicative space in the making? New York : Routledge, 2007 xiii, 312p. ; 24 cm Indeks : P.307-312 P.286-306 This book focuses on what the prospects are for a ' citizens' Europe' it places particular emphasis on the notion of a European public sphere, that is a communicative space that might enable and engender the formation of a transnational or a supranational public. A viable public sphere is a central precondition for democracy because it enables widespread public debate. Analysts have consistently stressed that an important component of the European Union's democratic deficit ( that is, its defiability, and support) is the absence of a viale European public sphere.It covers three main themes : how to theorise communicative practices in the EU, the working of general publics and the media, and finally the key EU institutions and their implications for the public sphare. No such assement has been undertaken before. Communication Institutional condition Edited by John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger 10301/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10300/MKRI-P/XI-2008