[Key theme seminar] Home Style: How National Governments Present European Integration and Why it Matters

Key theme seminar - Strains in democratic representation

Sciences Po, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007, Paris

Tom Hunter is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He obtained his PhD from the LSE in 2021. His research focuses on Rhetoric on International Cooperation, both at the domestic level and at the international level. How do governments present international cooperation in their domestic public spheres?

What rhetorical strategies do negotiators use behind closed doors? How are international organizations debated in national parliaments, and with what consequences for their legitimacy? These are the questions that interest him. Methodologically, he uses innovative text-as-data methods to collect and analyses large datasets of communication related to international cooperation and European integration. For instance, during his PhD, he collected and analysed the press conferences of national leaders in the aftermath of EU summits. As part of his postdoc, he has collected mentions of 75 different international organizations in parliamentary debates over time. His work has been published/is forthcoming at the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the Journal of Politics (JOP), and the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP).

Article - Credit Claiming in the European Union (1 Mo)

Chair

Jan Rovny, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS

*Seminar of the key Strains in democratic representation