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Shifting Europe's Boundaries: mass media, public opinion and the enlargement of the EU

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.

Shifting Europe's Boundaries: mass media, public opinion and the enlargement of the EU

Urheber*in: Maier, Jürgen; Rittberger, Berthold

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Extent
Seite(n): 243-267
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
European Union Politics, 9(2)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Europapolitik
Massenkommunikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Experiment

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Maier, Jürgen
Rittberger, Berthold
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Vereinigtes Königreich
(when)
2008

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-229360
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Maier, Jürgen
  • Rittberger, Berthold

Time of origin

  • 2008

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