Introduction: Structuring political conflict about Europe: National media in transnational discourse analysis

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-260

  Liebert, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argumentative strategies; Communicative Europeanisation; Constitutional politics; European Union; Legitimacy of the Constitutional Treaty; Models of political conflict on European integration; National media debates; Transnational discourse analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547549605     PISSN: 15705854     EISSN: 15680258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15705850701432969     Document Type: Article

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