A window of opportunity? The relevance of the rotating European Union presidency in the public eye

Olga Eisele, Tobias Heidenreich, Nina Kriegler, Pamina Syed Ali and Hajo G. Boomgaarden
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Olga Eisele: Department of Communication, 27258University of Vienna, Austria; Department of Communication, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tobias Heidenreich: 28422Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany
Nina Kriegler: Department of Communication, 27258University of Vienna, Austria
Pamina Syed Ali: Department of Communication and Media Research, 27217University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hajo G. Boomgaarden: Department of Communication, 27258University of Vienna, Austria

European Union Politics, 2023, vol. 24, issue 2, 327-347

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.

Keywords: Austria; automated content analysis; manual content analysis; media coverage; rotating EU presidency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/14651165221142504

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