Taru Haapala
Biographic Data
| ID | 4408448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taru Haapala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taru |
| FAMILY NAME | Haapala |
| SIGNATURE | HAAPALA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0562-0685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-Truth Politics in Action? Representation of the Media in Spanish Radical Parties’ Electoral Campaigns
Recent research on the EU institutional response to post-truth politics has shown a gradual shift of focus from external threats to internal democratic challenges, including populist parties and elections. The case of Spain is particularly relevant as the country’s “disinformation landscape” has been assessed as exhibiting “acute political and media polarisation” originating from weak media regulation and changes in political and media environmen…
Undermining Liberal Democracy? Cross‐Level Opposition in Madrid Regional President's Speeches During the Pandemic Crisis
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the study of political opposition during the Covid‐19 pandemic crisis. In liberal democracies, the crisis often amplified executive dominance, thereby weakening the institutional opposition’s key role in providing scrutiny on government policies. While governmental emergency powers during the pandemic have been previously critically assessed, the strategic deployment of contestation by opposition …
What Is the EU’s Vision of Democracy in the Post-Truth Scenario? A Conceptual Analysis of the Institutional Narratives of the Public Sphere in the “Democracy Action Plan”
Contributing to recent academic and public debates on how European democracies should respond to a scenario of “post-truth politics”, this article explores the idea of democracy that underlies current regulatory responses in the “European Democracy Action Plan” (EDAP). It offers a conceptual analysis of the institutional narratives in the EDAP illustrating normative expectations of the public sphere and transformations of the basic concepts in th…
Politicising the Pandemic Recovery? Opposition Strategies against the Spanish Government’s Covid-19 Measures
This article examines Spain’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery from the perspective of politicisation as a form of political activity. The main argument is that politicisation must be considered more broadly as a part of democratic politics, as distinct from the too narrow theoretical framework of European Union (EU) politicisation. The analysis builds on recent conceptual research into politicisation and asks: Has Spain’s pandemic recovery become poli…
Disrupting European politics? Rhetorical analysis of MEP Manon Aubry’s politicising strategies in Twitter
This article takes a conceptual approach to EU politicisation and analyses the empirical case study of MEP Manon Aubry’s use of Twitter as political activity from a rhetorical perspective. A self-proclaimed ‘activist deputy’ representing La France Insoumise is illustrated of using politicising strategies in Twitter after the European elections in 2019 to assume the representative role of a ‘disruptive outsider’. Here rhetorical analysis is used t…
Politics of expertise in the European Parliament
This article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive interview dataset (n=133) from the 8th and 9th legislative terms. It builds on a constructivist approach that sees expertise as constructed, legitimized,…
A missed opportunity of supranationalism? The drafting of European political authority in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, 1949–51
This article examines postwar supranational parliamentarism by focusing on the political role of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. While the historical significance of the Assembly has been re-investigated, less attention has been given to the political role of the parliamentary body of the Council in the framework of political theorizing of postwar parliamentarism. Neither has the parliamentary role of the Assembly been much di…
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU
Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action
Debate as Politics
nonPeerReviewed
The Oxford Union Debate on War in 1933
This paper shows how a debate conducted in the Oxford Union, the leading student debating society in Britain, was used to make a point about representation and politics in the national press, and what it means in terms of political action and who can be entitled to make political claims. In 1933 the Union debated a motion “That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country”. It was carried by a clear majority, and the scan…
Debating federal Europe in the British Parliament, c. 1940–49
Federalism, or the fear of it, worked as a catalyst in the British pre-referendum debate on Brexit in June 2016. In this paper, we focus on the pre-European integration context and ask what kind of an alternative federalism was seen to afford in British politics during and after the Second World War. We limit our discussion to parliamentary debates, which have only rarely been used as primary sources for studying European integration history. The…
Political Rhetoric in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, 1830–1870
The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c .1830–72
In this article, debating societies are considered an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds' for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies …
Parliamentary Reform at Westminster
As a concept, reform has been associated with British parliamentary politics for a very long time. In the nineteenth century, it became a political idea connected with the creation of new instituti
Politics of expertise in the European Parliament
This article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive interview dataset (n=133) from the 8th and 9th legislative terms. It builds on a constructivist approach that sees expertise as constructed, legitimized,…
The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c .1830–72
In this article, debating societies are considered an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds' for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies …
Parliamentary Reform at Westminster
As a concept, reform has been associated with British parliamentary politics for a very long time. In the nineteenth century, it became a political idea connected with the creation of new instituti
Political Rhetoric in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, 1830–1870
Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action
Debate as Politics
nonPeerReviewed
The Oxford Union Debate on War in 1933
This paper shows how a debate conducted in the Oxford Union, the leading student debating society in Britain, was used to make a point about representation and politics in the national press, and what it means in terms of political action and who can be entitled to make political claims. In 1933 the Union debated a motion “That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country”. It was carried by a clear majority, and the scan…
Debating federal Europe in the British Parliament, c. 1940–49
Federalism, or the fear of it, worked as a catalyst in the British pre-referendum debate on Brexit in June 2016. In this paper, we focus on the pre-European integration context and ask what kind of an alternative federalism was seen to afford in British politics during and after the Second World War. We limit our discussion to parliamentary debates, which have only rarely been used as primary sources for studying European integration history. The…
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU
Disrupting European politics? Rhetorical analysis of MEP Manon Aubry’s politicising strategies in Twitter
This article takes a conceptual approach to EU politicisation and analyses the empirical case study of MEP Manon Aubry’s use of Twitter as political activity from a rhetorical perspective. A self-proclaimed ‘activist deputy’ representing La France Insoumise is illustrated of using politicising strategies in Twitter after the European elections in 2019 to assume the representative role of a ‘disruptive outsider’. Here rhetorical analysis is used t…
Politics of expertise in the European Parliament
This article analyses the politics of expertise in the European Parliament (EP). We aim to understand how MEPs and political group staff discursively construct expertise, its role in parliamentary work, and how expertise is politicized in the EP. The qualitative analysis is based on an extensive interview dataset (n=133) from the 8th and 9th legislative terms. It builds on a constructivist approach that sees expertise as constructed, legitimized,…
A missed opportunity of supranationalism? The drafting of European political authority in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, 1949–51
This article examines postwar supranational parliamentarism by focusing on the political role of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. While the historical significance of the Assembly has been re-investigated, less attention has been given to the political role of the parliamentary body of the Council in the framework of political theorizing of postwar parliamentarism. Neither has the parliamentary role of the Assembly been much di…
What Is the EU’s Vision of Democracy in the Post-Truth Scenario? A Conceptual Analysis of the Institutional Narratives of the Public Sphere in the “Democracy Action Plan”
Contributing to recent academic and public debates on how European democracies should respond to a scenario of “post-truth politics”, this article explores the idea of democracy that underlies current regulatory responses in the “European Democracy Action Plan” (EDAP). It offers a conceptual analysis of the institutional narratives in the EDAP illustrating normative expectations of the public sphere and transformations of the basic concepts in th…
Politicising the Pandemic Recovery? Opposition Strategies against the Spanish Government’s Covid-19 Measures
This article examines Spain’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery from the perspective of politicisation as a form of political activity. The main argument is that politicisation must be considered more broadly as a part of democratic politics, as distinct from the too narrow theoretical framework of European Union (EU) politicisation. The analysis builds on recent conceptual research into politicisation and asks: Has Spain’s pandemic recovery become poli…
Post-Truth Politics in Action? Representation of the Media in Spanish Radical Parties’ Electoral Campaigns
Recent research on the EU institutional response to post-truth politics has shown a gradual shift of focus from external threats to internal democratic challenges, including populist parties and elections. The case of Spain is particularly relevant as the country’s “disinformation landscape” has been assessed as exhibiting “acute political and media polarisation” originating from weak media regulation and changes in political and media environmen…
Undermining Liberal Democracy? Cross‐Level Opposition in Madrid Regional President's Speeches During the Pandemic Crisis
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the study of political opposition during the Covid‐19 pandemic crisis. In liberal democracies, the crisis often amplified executive dominance, thereby weakening the institutional opposition’s key role in providing scrutiny on government policies. While governmental emergency powers during the pandemic have been previously critically assessed, the strategic deployment of contestation by opposition …
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Parliament (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works)