Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK

This article explores whether and how journalists cover various forms of differentiation in the European Union (EU) in the news. Differentiation is a key feature of European integration, viewed by some as a facilitator of democracy and by others as a mechanism leading to dominance. Yet we know only little how its complex and controversial aspects are communicated to the citizens by journalists in their role as public mediator and critical watchdogs. Drawing on a selection of news reports published between 2015 and 2020 in nine media outlets from Germany, Denmark, and the UK, we find that the media frequently covers EU differentiation in a range of forms that extends beyond the conventional academic focus on territory-based differentiated integration. The majority of this coverage presents a balanced view, yet nuances emerge with respect to the forms of differentiation discussed and the origins of commentary on these matters. Overall, these results point to the key role of the media as translators and watchdogs of the complexity of EU governance

Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment

In this paper, we confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual setting. To illustrate our argument, we rely on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. The European deliberative poll is an ideal case for testing the viability of deliberative democracy across political cultures because it introduces variation in terms of constituency and group plurality under the controlled conditions of a scientific experiment. On the basis of our measurement of both participants’ self-perceptions and changes of opinions through questionnaires and of group dynamics and interactions through qualitative coding of group discussions we can identify the following patterns: 1) The EU polity is generally recognised and taken as a reference point by participants for exercising communicative power and impact on decisionmaking, 2) the Europolis experiment proves that participants are in fact able to interact and debate across languages and cultures, developing a selfawareness of citizens of a shared polity and thereby turning a heterogeneous group of randomly selected group into a constituency of democracy

Die optimale Nutzung erschoepfbarer Ressourcen bei endlichem Planungshorizont: e. graphische Darst. des 2-Perioden-Falls

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The state of nature in the shadow of contract formation: adding a missing link to J. M. Buchanan's social contract theory

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Der state of nature im Schatten von Erwartungen ueber die Bildung und Verteilung von Eigentumsrechten: Ergebnisse e. spieltheoret. Analyse d. Vertragstheorie von J. M. Buchanan

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Private international trade in the shadow of the territoriality of law: why does it work?

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New institutional economics of international transactions: constitutional uncertainty and the creation of institutions in foreign trade as exemplified by the multinational firm

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A theory of optimum legal areas regulation of social interaction through the control of territory

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Private law, the world production possibility frontier and the need for an international private law community: German theory of order and constitutional economics at work

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