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This chapter discusses the relationship between citizens’ attitudes towards the EU and their use of the media in the context of the economic crisis. It presents the methodology adopted in the volume and the first results of some descriptive analyses on citizens’ attitudes and their use of the media.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It is important to note that in the same year, France also held a referendum where ratification of the Maastricht Treaty was approved by only a slim majority of votes (51.1%).

  2. 2.

    After 2011, the question regarding the membership of one’s own country in the EU was discontinued by the survey.

  3. 3.

    See the original pillarisation of the EU introduced by the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 that planned a growing cooperation effort also in the two pillars of Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs, then followed by the communitarisation effort introduced by the Lisbon Treaty of 2007.

  4. 4.

    For information on the Chapel Hill data set, see Bakker et al. (2015).

  5. 5.

    One may also consider Eurosceptical subjects those with at least one standard deviation below the mean stance of the reference population, as the two authors do in their work.

  6. 6.

    The choice of a multidimensional measurement of the attitudes towards the EU is dictated by the discontinuation in the Eurobarometer survey, since 2012, of the question on the membership of one’s own country, together with an interest in the assessment of more specific (as opposed to broad) individual stances on the EU.

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Conti, N., Memoli, V. (2016). Citizens’ Attitudes Towards the EU, Use of the Media. In: Citizens, Europe and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45252-4_2

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