This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres. It addresses the questions of how and to what extent the national media discourses about TTIP were Europeanised, and how this type of
Europeanisation contributes to the democratic legitimacy of the EU. The author argues that the politicisation of TTIP should be seen as a symptom of the ‘normal’ politics of a democratic polity, as it enlarges the political arena by embedding European issues into national political debates. Demands for ‘Another Europe is Possible’ empower rather than hinder the legitimacy of the EU.
Author(s): Alvaro Oleart
Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Praise for Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction to the Analysis of the Pan-European Debate Surrounding the TTIP Negotiations
1 Introduction
2 Research Design, Scope of the Research and Structure of the Book
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2 An Agonistic Approach to the Europeanisation of Public Spheres: Matching ‘Policy with Politics’
1 The Europeanisation of Public Spheres and the Democratisation of the EU
1.1 The European Public Sphere: A Democratic Aspiration for the EU From a Deliberative and Agonistic Perspective
1.2 The Europeanisation of Public Spheres Through the National Media: The EU as an Audience Democracy
1.3 The EU’s Democratic (and Opposition) Deficit: The Depoliticised Europeanisation of Public Spheres and the ‘Permissive Consensus’
1.4 ‘Policy Without Politics’ in the EU and the Agency in Politicisation: Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs)
2 Different Types of Politicisation and Their Implications for European Integration
2.1 The Third Face of Power: The Battle of Ideas to Define Political Conflict
2.2 Agonistic vs Antagonistic Politicisation of the EU: Policy Contestation as Politics in the Union, and EU Polity Contestation as Politics of the Union
2.3 The Agonistic Europeanisation of Public Spheres: Towards an ‘Empowering Dissensus’ for European Integration
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3 A Media-Centred Approach to Analyse the Politicisation and Europeanisation of TTIP
1 The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Context
1.1 The Neoliberal Paradigm’s Hegemony in Europe: The Economic Autonomy Vis-à-Vis the Political Sphere
1.2 TTIP: A Neoliberal Trade Policy Project
2 Framing Analysis of Media Content in the TTIP Debate
2.1 A Framing Perspective
2.2 Methodology and Data Sets: Framing Analysis of Media Content on TTIP
2.3 Content and Process Frames, and Visual Categories
2.3.1 Content Frames: Opportunity Frames
2.3.2 Content Frames: Agonistic Frames
2.3.3 Content Frames: Antagonistic Frames
2.3.4 Process Frames
2.3.5 Visual Categories: Building a Visual Imagery of TTIP
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4 Framing TTIP in Spain
1 The (Lack of) EU Politicisation in Spain and Its ‘Permissive Consensus’: Europe as a Path to Modernisation
2 The Evolution of the Agonistic TTIP Debate in the Spanish Public Sphere
2.1 Overview of the TTIP Debate in Spain
2.2 February 2013 to September 2014: The Initial TTIP Debate Framed Through a Neoliberal Discourse
2.3 European and National Protests Introduce TTIP into the Mainstream: Agonistic Politicisation Emerges in Spain
3 The Politicisation of TTIP in Spain: The EU Becomes a Political Arena for Civil Society and Political Actors
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5 Framing TTIP in France
1 France and the EU: Agonistic Politicisation Focused on Social Issues
2 The Evolution of the Agonistic TTIP Debate in the French Public Sphere
2.1 Overview of the TTIP Debate in France
2.2 February 2013 to Mid-April 2014: The Progressive Media Introduces TTIP in France, the Mainstream Takes It to the Next Level
2.3 The Agonistic Politicisation in France: TTIP Becomes Mainstream from the 2014 EU Elections Onwards
3 The Politicisation of TTIP in France: Building on the Bolkestein Directive
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6 Framing TTIP in the UK
1 Framing Europe in the UK: Antagonistic Politicisation Based on the Defence of National Identity and Sovereignty
2 The Evolution of the Agonistic TTIP Debate in the British Public Sphere
2.1 Overview of the TTIP Debate in the UK
2.2 February 2013 to June 2014: British Elites Debate TTIP
2.3 July 2014 to November 2016: TTIP Becomes a Matter of National UK Politics
3 The Politicisation of TTIP in the UK: Nationalising the Agonistic TTIP Debate in the Context of Brexit
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7 Framing TTIP Across the Spanish, French and British Public Spheres: The Bursting of the Brussels Bubble
1 Overview of the TTIP Debate Across the Spanish, French and British Public Spheres
1.1 The Transnational Framing of TTIP Across Spain, France and the UK
1.2 February 2013 to Mid-2014: The Europeanisation of Public Spheres on TTIP Without Politicisation
1.3 Mid-2014 to November 2016: From Agonistic Europeanisation to the Emergence of an Episodic Transnational Public Sphere on TTIP
1.4 Europeanising the Public Spheres and Nationalising the TTIP Debate: Two Intertwined Processes
2 TTIP and the Bursting of the Brussels Bubble Through (Agonistic) Politicisation
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8 The Transnational TTIP Debate: Politicisation Empowers Further European Integration
1 Contribution to the Literature, Shortcomings and Avenues for Further Research: Bridging the European Public Sphere Literature with EU Politicisation
2 Policy Effects of the TTIP Debate’s Agonistic Europeanisation: Towards a Great Transformation in EU Trade Policy?
3 An Empowering Dissensus for an Increasingly Federal European Integration
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