Mediatized representative politics in the European Union: towards audience democracy?

Michailidou, Asimina; Trenz, Hans‐Jörg

doi:10.1080/13501763.2013.746126

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“…We need to acknowledge that the majority of relevant representative claims are mediated representative claims (Michailidou and Trenz, 2013). Journalists decide to cover them in the news because they think they are relevant to their wider audience.…”

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The Quality of Representative Claims: Uncovering a Weakness in the Defense of the Liberal World Order

Wilde

2019

Political Studies

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All kinds of actors, elected and unelected, make claims to represent certain constituencies. This paper sheds new light on what this practice of representative claims-making might imply for the legitimacy of the liberal world order. It develops a quality of representation index at the level of representative claims and introduces a novel dataset. First, the paper introduces the information criterion as key benchmark against which to evaluate representative claims.Second, it constructs a quality of representation index based on this criterion and uses it to assess representative claims.Third, multivariate analysis corroborates differences between various makers while controlling for context. Bridging the divide between political theory and empirical political sociology, this paper reveals that the supporters of the current liberal democratic world order make significantly lower quality representative claims than various challengers.A range of new avenues for both theoretical and empirical research ensues.

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Section: Studying Representative Claims In the Newsmentioning

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“…While Saward leaves the option open statements made without an audience present qualify as representative claims, subsequent research on representative claims has stressed the public nature of claim-making and the importance of a wider audience present (e.g. Michailidou and Trenz, 2013; Moffitt, 2016: Ch. 6).…”

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The Quality of Representative Claims: Uncovering a Weakness in the Defense of the Liberal World Order

Wilde

2019

Political Studies

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“…These networks consolidate the power of national regulators and induce them to develop elaborate narratives, which transform the norms that they apply into a series of detailed specifications (Danielsen and Yesilkagit, 2014; Magetti, 2014; Ruffing, 2017). Finally, media representations of the Europe Union activities became even more central to its legitimacy and contestation as citizens had to turn to them for cues on how to evaluate these activities (Koopmans and Statham, 2010; Michailidou and Trenz, 2013). The consequence has been that some media outlets have perceived themselves as representing a wider public opinion beyond that articulated by the EU Institutions or national governments.…”

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Brexit and the renaissance of parliamentary authority

Chalmers

2017

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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With the promised return of Parliamentary powers, Brexit is supposed to be a fillip for representative democracy. There is a significant danger that will not be so. EU membership weakened the conditions for representative democracy within those fields governed by the EU. Whitehall will almost be the central player in the reform of EU-derived law. And policy styles are being developed which marginalise rather than consolidate UK legislatures in these fields. Restoration of representative democracy will require a realistic re-evaluation of its virtues so that these can be protected and a re-imagination of the possibilities and limits of parliaments within such a landscape.

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“…In this article, we study Norwegian media narratives on migration and how they can be understood through different conceptions of justice. The politicisation of foundational issues for a political community often leads to them becoming mediatized, that is, "mass mediated" and in some respects a driver for political and societal change (see Hjarvard 2008;Michailidou and Trenz 2013). Moreover, there is considerable support in the literature for focusing on media narratives as an important aspect of ongoing national and European debates on migration (see e.g.…”

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From Humanitarian Needs to Border Control: Norwegian Media Narratives on Migration and Conceptions of Justice

Olsen

Grønning

2019

The International Spectator

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Migration is a topic that has frequently been present in political debates and the mass media in recent years, especially following the European and EU migration and refugee crisis. Newspaper debates in Norway presented different narratives with different conceptions of global justice. Migration is by definition a crossborder issue that has a direct effect on the interests of states as well as individuals, therefore the question of global justice is highly relevant. Three core media narratives were present: the humanitarian, the statist, and the EU integration narrative, which particularly highlights Norway as an integrated non-member of the EU. In the humanitarian narrative, a notion of impartiality of universal individual rights was prevalent, while in the statist narrative and to some extent in the EU integration narrative, a territorial and state-oriented conception of justice as non-domination was visible. Concerns about human rights were prevalent mainly in matters far away from Norway, but less so when the so-called migration crisis hit Norway directly.

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Mediatized representative politics in the European Union: towards audience democracy?

Cited by 27 publications

References 41 publications

The Quality of Representative Claims: Uncovering a Weakness in the Defense of the Liberal World Order

The Quality of Representative Claims: Uncovering a Weakness in the Defense of the Liberal World Order

Brexit and the renaissance of parliamentary authority

From Humanitarian Needs to Border Control: Norwegian Media Narratives on Migration and Conceptions of Justice

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