期刊名称：The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations = Revista Română de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice
印刷版ISSN：1454-8100
出版年度：2012
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：7
出版社：National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
摘要：Over the past two decades, the European public sphere has emerged as one of these sci-entific meta-narratives (like European identity or European democracy) with a potential tobridge theory and practice and define a common interdisciplinary agenda in European stud-ies. Academics, intellectuals and political reformists have been united in the attempt to laythe social foundations of European integration and confine its 'unity in diversity'. There hasbeen a long debate whether a European public sphere is feasible and desirable and what couldbe its possible mechanisms of emergence and manifestations. In the most fundamental sense,this debate has been linked to the unfinished constitutionalisation of the EU, i.e. the questionof how the EU should consolidate as a political order and on which basis or through whichprinciples its legitimacy should be grounded (Habermas, 2006). The broad literature on thistopic has proposed different models of a European unifying public sphere or differentiatedEuropeanised public spheres (Schlesinger, 1999; Trenz, 2007; Wessler et al., 2008; Koop-mans & Statham, 2010). Through expanding forms of communication and debates, Europeshould be made salient and relevant for the citizens. Participation in meaningful and sharedcommunication was seen as a precondition for citizens' inclusion and possible identificationas members of a political community. The public sphere, in short, should turn European cit-izenship meaningful and consequential. It should not only empower individual citizens tomake use of their civic, political and social rights but also bind them together and engagethem in a process of public opinion and will formation.
