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100			_aEisele, Olqa _926347
245			_aFalling on deaf ears: Exploring the effects of newspaper coverage of the European Parliament on public support for it
260			_aParliamentary Affairs: A Journal of Representative Politics
300			_a73(1), Jan, 2020: p.186-210
520			_aThe European Parliament (EP) is the only directly elected institution at the European Union (EU) level, and its empowerment was long regarded to quasi-automatically lead to greater legitimacy of EU politics. The strength of the EP has grown continuously. However, this has not translated into greater appreciation of a crisis-ridden EU which seems more fundamentally questioned than ever before. Starting from the assumption that mass media serve as the most important source of political information and therefore as a crucial connective interface, we explore newspaper contents about the EP and their effects on public support for it to assess the actual link between the people’s representation at EU level and the people at home. The analysis is conducted for EP elections of 2009 and 2014 in Finland, Germany and the UK. Results suggest that effects of coverage on public support of the EP became stronger and more direct in 2014, which is explained by the increased salience of EU politics in times of crisis. However, expectations of what the EP is or should be may have to be adapted to the reality of a second-order parliament. – Reproduced
650			_aEuropean Parliament (EP), European Union (EU) _926348
773			_aParliamentary Affairs: A Journal of Representative Politics
906			_aEUROPEAN UNION
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