Shifting Europe's Boundaries

Jürgen Maier and Berthold Rittberger
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Jürgen Maier: Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany, maier@sowi.uni-kl.de
Berthold Rittberger: University of Mannheim, Germany, berthold.rittberger@uni-mannheim.de

European Union Politics, 2008, vol. 9, issue 2, 243-267

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.

Keywords: enlargement; experiment; mass media; public opinion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116508089087

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