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- Title
Beobachtung oder Intervention Das Eurobarometer im Prozess der Europäischen Integration.
- Authors
Nissen, Sylke
- Abstract
The European Commissio n observes the development of the European Union for 40 years now. The Eurobarometer measures the Europeans' attitudes towards a number of Europe related questions. The information value is classified as high because the surveys are conducted twice a year and thus generate an ever growing set of data. The paper investigates the role of the Eurobarometer in the process of the European integration. To this end, the methods applied are examined and weaknesses discussed. Subsequently the contribution advances to the thesis that the commission uses the Eu-robarometer as a political instrument to foster European integration processes. The use of the Eurobarometer as an instrument of intervention, however, questions its usefulness as a survey and leaves the political benefit of its exploitation uncertain.
- Subjects
EUROPE; EUROPEAN integration; EUROPEAN Commission; EUROPEAN Union; PUBLIC opinion polls; PUBLIC opinion; INFORMATION services
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politik, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0044-3360
- Publication type
Article