POLITIKA EURÓPAI TÉRBEN. Egy kutatási program elméleti keretei
POLITICS IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR RESEARCHING EUROPEAN POLITICAL SPACE

Summary/Abstract: In the past couple of years, European politicians and citizens had to become more and more conscious of the fact that domestic policy issues suddenly turned out to be the common concerns of politicians, intellectuals, celebrities, street protesters and online activists all over Europe which has been discussed as precondition for a vivid European political community. The aim of the paper is to sketch a theoretical and conceptual ground for future evidence-based empirical studies which might provide analytical and explanatory schemes for comprehending Europe (including the EU regime) as an agency-centred political space which is continuously being confi gured and reconfi gured via publicly available communications on controversial issues. Our point of departure is the social constructivist turn in European studies, namely, seeing institutions/ structures as a result of the actors’ eminently communicative activities. The article also proposes to redefi ne the role of the European public sphere in studying the behaviour of political actors in making a European political space. Finally we present a tentative list of potential research directions to test comparatively the current European political space models via the European political debates.

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