(De-)politicization strategies in the European Union: An Actor-Centered Comparative Study of Public Discourse on EU Policies KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis conceptualizes what an act of (de-)politicization in the public sphere looks like and shows how this can be detected empirically through a claim-level (de-)politicization index – the first of its kind in the field. This approach is applied to a database of EU policy evaluations (claims), in the media of six Member States (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Denmark). The aim is to explore avenues which theoretically ...