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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Advance Access originally published online on October 10, 2007
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2007 19(4):409-433; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edm024
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

Domestic Adaptations of Europe: A Comparative Study of the Debates on EU Enlargement and a Common Constitution in the German and French Quality Press

Silke Adam

Address correspondence to Silke Adam, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Social Sciences – 540 E, Communication Studies/Media Policy, Fruwirthstrasse 47, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany, E-mail: adamsilk{at}uni-hohenheim.de

The article investigates why a specific European issue is debated in one country but disregarded in another, and why issues are debated differently in different European countries. To understand this national filtering, expectations are formulated as to how specific policy traditions and issue-specific conflict constellations within a country are reflected in media debates. A systematic content analysis of the debates on EU enlargement and a common constitution for the years 2000–2002 in the German and French quality press reveals considerable variation in issue salience, actors’ prominence and actors’ responsibility attributions between and within the countries. This variation can be seen to be connected with different policy traditions and conflict constellations. The study seeks to go beyond merely describing variations in media coverage across Europe and systematically uses cross-national and cross-issue comparative research to understand this variation.

Received for publication October 19, 2006. Accepted for publication April 5, 2007.


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