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The Context of Opposition to and Support for the EU in the Member States

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The main results of the analyses that were carried out in the book are summarised in this chapter. We systematise the results in patterns of causality that could serve as a foundation for the development of a general theory of the impact of the media on citizens’ attitudes towards the EU.

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Conti, N., Memoli, V. (2016). The Context of Opposition to and Support for the EU in the Member States. In: Citizens, Europe and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45252-4_6

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