Claudia Wiesner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Wiesner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiesner |
| SIGNATURE | WIESNER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fulda University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5267-198X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From conceptual politics to geopolitics
This article focuses on the ideological adjustments at stake in the conflicts related to the War against Ukraine. The War marks a turning point in world politics in several respects: First, in terms of ideological adjustments the War can be interpreted as opposing the democratic West and its enemies. Second, the War underlines that and how the “Liberal International Order” is being contested from various sides, along with its proponents, structur…
National EU Discourses in Germany and France and the Construction of European Identity
This article presents the core findings of a comparative study on the German and French national EU discourses around the draft Treaty on a Constitution for Europe in 2005 and on their effect on European identity formation. It is based on the main methodological assumption that European identity, among other means, can be constructed in national EU discourses, as such discourses construct meaning for the EU. The French discourse related to the re…
Politicisation and Democracy
The article develops the relation of politicisation and democracy theoretically, normatively, and conceptually. Politicisation is defined as marking something as collectively relevant and as an object of politics, and hence as debatable or contested. Democracy, and concretely liberal or representative democracy, means organised self‐government of the citizens via elected representants. It is marked by a set of institutions and rights based on the…
Debating Europe
This thematic issue focuses on how Europe and the European Union are debated, politicized, and contested. A key focus is set on the question of whether and how these debates and politicizations help to democratize the EU, or not. This rationale is based on the assumption that debate is a key democratic activity, and accordingly, “Debating Europe” is one of the bases for a democratic Europe and a democratic EU. This is also the key assumption of t…
Debating Democracy
Within academia as much as in political practice, democracy remains a contested concept. This issue focuses on the practices of the contestation of the concept of democracy—the debates, controversies, and contestations of democracy in theory, practice, and in historical perspectives. Special emphasis is put on the concept of liberal democracy—i.e, the form that democracy mostly takes nowadays. The key argument is that (liberal) democracy has alwa…
Towards Caring Economies? Feminist Economic Visions and Covid-19 Recovery in Germany, Canada, and Finland
Measuring political legitimacy in two dimensions
Research on political legitimacy encompasses two distinct traditions, one institutionalist and another drawing on political culture accounts of legitimacy. Recent contributions argue in favor of an integration of these two vantage points in the study of political legitimacy. Following these lines of reasoning, we investigate empirically whether a two-dimensional approach in political legitimacy research integrating the institutionalist and politi…
Actors, concepts, controversies
The paper is a contribution to research methodology. It proposes a useful methodological import into the range of interpretative approaches in Political Science – the study of Conceptual Politics. Drawing on methodology and categories developed in Conceptual History, Conceptual Politics is understood as the political and rhetorical moves, strategies, debates and their actors, that coin, shape or reflect political concepts in both institutional an…
Conceptualising politicisation as activity
The article makes an innovative contribution to concept formation in the study of politicisation. It proposes a novel approach to analysing politicisation and applies it to the EU: It develops a theoretical and conceptual framework that regards politics as an activity and politicisation as the action that marks an issue as political. It is argued that such an approach can grasp facets of politicisation that most other existing approaches do not m…
Conceptualizing legitimacy
Based on a genealogy of the concept of Legitimacy, the goal of the paper is to develop a proposal that unites normative-theoretical and empirical approaches and hence reconciles two different conceptual-theoretical camps in legitimacy research. Legitimacy is a core concept in Political Science that relates to fundamental questions of politics, polity and policy–the relation between rulers and ruled, the properties of a political system, its democ…
Doing qualitative and interpretative research
Research in Political Science is increasingly based on qualitative and interpretative methods. Based on concrete experiences in a comprehensive qualitative interpretative study, this article discusses general challenges of interpretative methodologies and their application in Political Science. It fills a gap in the current methods literature by concretely explaining how the methodological presumptions of interpretative research are to be carried…
Vorwort
Bibliographie: Hentges, Gudrun/Wiesner, Claudia/Bauschke-Urban, Carola: Vorwort: Genderperspektiven für die European Studies, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 1-2021, S. 7-10. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.01
Free Trade versus Democracy and Social Standards in the European Union
This article aims at conceptualising, in analytical as well as normative-theoretical terms, the tensions between free trade, democratic and social standards, and national sovereignty that are named in Dani Rodrik ́s “globalisation trilemma” for the case of the European Union (EU). It is argued that the trilemma concept is much more fitting to the EU than a simple trade-off concept. This model offers a conceptual path to both analysing existing te…
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
The micro-politics of parliamentary powers
The European Parliament (EP) has gained considerable new powers since it was first established in 1952. Why has this happened, and how should the powers the EP possesses be assessed? This article suggests a novel approach that focuses on inter-institutional micropolitics and the processes in which the EP obtained its powers rather than treaty changes at IGCs. Interinstitutional micropolitics are carried out by institutions and their members who a…
Shaping Citizenship
Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action
Shaping Citizenship
Capitalism, democracy, and the European Union
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Gewaltenteilung und Demokratie im EU-Mehrebenensystem
Demokratie und Gewaltenteilung in der Euro-Finanzhilfenpolitik
Second chamber, ‘congress of ambassadors’ or federal presidency. Parliamentary and non-parliamentary aspects in the European Council's rules of procedure
The development of the European Union (EU) regime, with the frequent changes of institutions and their competencies by treaty revisions, allows for new opportunities for parliamentary studies. This article discusses the role and competencies of the European Council (EC) in the EU regime, using the heuristic and methodological resources of procedural commentaries, parliamentary rhetoric, conceptual history and political regime analysis. This study…
Thinking Europe politically
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
The micro-politics of parliamentary powers
The European Parliament (EP) has gained considerable new powers since it was first established in 1952. Why has this happened, and how should the powers the EP possesses be assessed? This article suggests a novel approach that focuses on inter-institutional micropolitics and the processes in which the EP obtained its powers rather than treaty changes at IGCs. Interinstitutional micropolitics are carried out by institutions and their members who a…
Conceptualizing legitimacy
Based on a genealogy of the concept of Legitimacy, the goal of the paper is to develop a proposal that unites normative-theoretical and empirical approaches and hence reconciles two different conceptual-theoretical camps in legitimacy research. Legitimacy is a core concept in Political Science that relates to fundamental questions of politics, polity and policy–the relation between rulers and ruled, the properties of a political system, its democ…
Doing qualitative and interpretative research
Research in Political Science is increasingly based on qualitative and interpretative methods. Based on concrete experiences in a comprehensive qualitative interpretative study, this article discusses general challenges of interpretative methodologies and their application in Political Science. It fills a gap in the current methods literature by concretely explaining how the methodological presumptions of interpretative research are to be carried…
National EU Discourses in Germany and France and the Construction of European Identity
This article presents the core findings of a comparative study on the German and French national EU discourses around the draft Treaty on a Constitution for Europe in 2005 and on their effect on European identity formation. It is based on the main methodological assumption that European identity, among other means, can be constructed in national EU discourses, as such discourses construct meaning for the EU. The French discourse related to the re…
Measuring political legitimacy in two dimensions
Research on political legitimacy encompasses two distinct traditions, one institutionalist and another drawing on political culture accounts of legitimacy. Recent contributions argue in favor of an integration of these two vantage points in the study of political legitimacy. Following these lines of reasoning, we investigate empirically whether a two-dimensional approach in political legitimacy research integrating the institutionalist and politi…
Conceptualising politicisation as activity
The article makes an innovative contribution to concept formation in the study of politicisation. It proposes a novel approach to analysing politicisation and applies it to the EU: It develops a theoretical and conceptual framework that regards politics as an activity and politicisation as the action that marks an issue as political. It is argued that such an approach can grasp facets of politicisation that most other existing approaches do not m…
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Local policy networks in the programme Social City —a case in point for new forms of governance in the field of local social work and urban planning1 Lokale Politiknetzwerke im Programm Soziale Stadt …
The federal programme Social City represents a concept that is different from traditional urban planning, social work and local economic development as well as planning concepts in various ways. The developmental processes to be set into motion on the level of city districts: should make cooperation between various sectors and actors a key issue; should encourage them to invest into this cooperation and use the resources to be brought about by th…
Democratic Legitimacy, Democratisation and Democratic Identity of the European Union - Old Questions, New Challenges
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Lokales Regieren – Innovation und Evaluation
Lokales Regieren - Innovation und Evaluation
Ist die Finanzkrise auch eine Demokratiekrise? Eine Diskussion aus politischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht
Thinking Europe politically
The Europeanization of Citizenship
The development of citizenship in the framework of European integration has been marked by conceptual innovations. This article concentrates on three of its elements: antidiscrimination rights, the concept of Union Citizenship, and the right to free movement. In these cases, either concepts were newly coined, or already-established concepts were newly interpreted in the context of the European Union by the European Commission or by the Council. I…
Capitalism, democracy, and the European Union
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
Gewaltenteilung und Demokratie im EU-Mehrebenensystem
Demokratie und Gewaltenteilung in der Euro-Finanzhilfenpolitik
Second chamber, ‘congress of ambassadors’ or federal presidency. Parliamentary and non-parliamentary aspects in the European Council's rules of procedure
The development of the European Union (EU) regime, with the frequent changes of institutions and their competencies by treaty revisions, allows for new opportunities for parliamentary studies. This article discusses the role and competencies of the European Council (EC) in the EU regime, using the heuristic and methodological resources of procedural commentaries, parliamentary rhetoric, conceptual history and political regime analysis. This study…
Shaping Citizenship
Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action
Shaping Citizenship
Exit politics, enter politicization
A growing number of recent empirical studies such as the four contributions discussed here examine the politicization of the European Union, Europe, European integration or European governance. Two general research questions mark this emerging research field. A first one is how to theorize and conceptualize the politicization of the European Union (EU) and the reasons behind it. Does politicization have to do with a decline in EU support or Euros…
The micro-politics of parliamentary powers
The European Parliament (EP) has gained considerable new powers since it was first established in 1952. Why has this happened, and how should the powers the EP possesses be assessed? This article suggests a novel approach that focuses on inter-institutional micropolitics and the processes in which the EP obtained its powers rather than treaty changes at IGCs. Interinstitutional micropolitics are carried out by institutions and their members who a…
Free Trade versus Democracy and Social Standards in the European Union
This article aims at conceptualising, in analytical as well as normative-theoretical terms, the tensions between free trade, democratic and social standards, and national sovereignty that are named in Dani Rodrik ́s “globalisation trilemma” for the case of the European Union (EU). It is argued that the trilemma concept is much more fitting to the EU than a simple trade-off concept. This model offers a conceptual path to both analysing existing te…
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Vorwort
Bibliographie: Hentges, Gudrun/Wiesner, Claudia/Bauschke-Urban, Carola: Vorwort: Genderperspektiven für die European Studies, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 1-2021, S. 7-10. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.01
Conceptualizing legitimacy
Based on a genealogy of the concept of Legitimacy, the goal of the paper is to develop a proposal that unites normative-theoretical and empirical approaches and hence reconciles two different conceptual-theoretical camps in legitimacy research. Legitimacy is a core concept in Political Science that relates to fundamental questions of politics, polity and policy–the relation between rulers and ruled, the properties of a political system, its democ…
Doing qualitative and interpretative research
Research in Political Science is increasingly based on qualitative and interpretative methods. Based on concrete experiences in a comprehensive qualitative interpretative study, this article discusses general challenges of interpretative methodologies and their application in Political Science. It fills a gap in the current methods literature by concretely explaining how the methodological presumptions of interpretative research are to be carried…
Actors, concepts, controversies
The paper is a contribution to research methodology. It proposes a useful methodological import into the range of interpretative approaches in Political Science – the study of Conceptual Politics. Drawing on methodology and categories developed in Conceptual History, Conceptual Politics is understood as the political and rhetorical moves, strategies, debates and their actors, that coin, shape or reflect political concepts in both institutional an…
Conceptualising politicisation as activity
The article makes an innovative contribution to concept formation in the study of politicisation. It proposes a novel approach to analysing politicisation and applies it to the EU: It develops a theoretical and conceptual framework that regards politics as an activity and politicisation as the action that marks an issue as political. It is argued that such an approach can grasp facets of politicisation that most other existing approaches do not m…
Measuring political legitimacy in two dimensions
Research on political legitimacy encompasses two distinct traditions, one institutionalist and another drawing on political culture accounts of legitimacy. Recent contributions argue in favor of an integration of these two vantage points in the study of political legitimacy. Following these lines of reasoning, we investigate empirically whether a two-dimensional approach in political legitimacy research integrating the institutionalist and politi…
Political science (23 works) · Politics (19 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · European union (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)