AZ EURÓPAI NYILVÁNOSSÁG MIBENLÉTÉRŐL: PARADIGMÁK, DEFINÍCIÓK, MEGKÖZELÍTÉSEK ÉS DILEMMÁK EGY ÚJ KUTATÁSI TERÜLET KAPCSÁN
CONCEPTS OF THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE. PARADIGMS, DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES FOR A POSSIBLE NEW DIRECTION OF EUROPEAN STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at reviewing the most important aspects of the emerging literature on the European public sphere. The vivid academic debates on democratic defi cit, low level of legitimacy and lack of European demos show that the European Union suffers from serious problems in connecting its publics. I attempt to summarize how political scientists approach the importance of public sphere in the European integration. The main points of the most infl uential pa radigms, theoretical backgrounds and defi nitions will be presented such as the total rethinking of Habermas’s public sphere conception in the context of the EU and the deliberative supranationalism which is currently one of the most coherent ways to conceptualize the European public sphere.

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