Shifting Europe's Boundaries: mass media, public opinion and the enlargement of the EU
| Titel: | Shifting Europe's Boundaries: mass media, public opinion and the enlargement of the EU |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Mannheim, 2008 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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begutachtet (peer reviewed) In: European Union Politics ; 9 (2008) 2 ; 243-267 |
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Abstract: This article demonstrates that public attitudes towards EU enlargement are strongly affected by exposure to the mass media. It reveals `priming' effects by showing that media exposure affects the standards by which individuals evaluate the accession of potential candidate countries. To gain a more refined understanding about media effects on enlargement attitudes, we analytically separate three different factors that underlie EU enlargement support for a given candidate country: its economic performance, its state of democracy and its perceived cultural `match' with the EU. Employing an experimental design, we probe the media-induced effects of these factors on EU enlargement attitudes |
