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This open access book is the product of three years of academic
research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet
Network on "Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation
of European Integration" since 2019. Drawing on the
multidisciplinary expertise of the network's members, the book
explores the impact of the phenomenon of post-truth politics on
European integration and the European Union. It places particular
emphasis on how post-truth politics has played out in the public
sphere and asks what impact the phenomenon has had on public
deliberation, but reflects also on its implications for democracy
in a wider sense. This book is primarily written for audiences with
an interest in politics and policy making, including academics,
policy makers and civil-society actors. Thanks to its accessible
style, the book should however also be an asset to wider audiences.
What kind of public sphere is possible in the European Union with
its considerable diversity of national identities, languages and
media systems? Against the backdrop of debates about a fundamental
European community deficit and the possibility of post-national
democracy, this book explores the role of a European public sphere
not only in bridging presumed gaps between citizens and their
representatives in the European institutions, but also in creating
transnational communicative spaces that contribute to the
politicisation of EU politics. Drawing on Deweyan pragmatism,
social constructivism and the Habermasian notion of constitutional
patriotism, this book moves beyond the conventional wisdom that a
European public sphere necessitates the existence of a sense of
European "identity light". Arguing that a political sense of
community along the lines of a European constitutional patriotism
can only emerge out of the democratic process itself, Maximilian
Conrad looks at the role of daily newspapers not only as framers of
public debate, but also as actors with distinct normative views
regarding the future of the integration process, both in terms of
the nature of the EU as a polity and the nature of democratic rule
in this polity. The crucial empirical question addressed in the
book is: Do newspapers with a pronounced preference for more
democracy beyond the nation state also play a more active role in
providing forums for transnational debate?
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