Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
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.
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Seite(n): 243-267
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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European Union Politics, 9(2)
- Subject
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Politikwissenschaft
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Europapolitik
Massenkommunikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Experiment
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Maier, Jürgen
Rittberger, Berthold
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Veröffentlichung
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Vereinigtes Königreich
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2008
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-229360
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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Object type
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Maier, Jürgen
- Rittberger, Berthold
Time of origin
- 2008