Andonovski, Jovan (2016) Public opinion and EU accession - basic in political rhetoric. The European Union - a new start?. pp. 165-182. ISSN 978-954-8702-35-5
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Abstract
Even though the public support for the European Union (EU) and the process
of accession of Republic of Macedonia (RM) into the EU has been a subject of
public opinion research from the very beginning of this process, nevertheless this
phenomenon has not been investigated thoroughly. The lack of specific and
systematic analyses of public attitudes on the process of European integration in
Macedonia results with numerous unanswered questions referring to the dynamics
of the support for this process and its basic determinants. This fact is even more
intriguing since analyses of public opinion in the candidate countries for EU
membership can have three key implications for domestic policy: from the outcome
for referendum for membership, through the impact of the European integration
process on the domestic political debate and electoral rhetoric, up to the impact
of the European integration process on the democratic consolidation in the postcommunist
context.1 Therefore, this research intends to fill in this gap through
preliminary analyses of the public support for the European integration process
in Macedonia in the period 2004-2014. In this context, these analyses pursue two
particular goals. The first one is to define the general trends of the public support
for Macedonian membership in the EU and to de-construct its dynamics. The
second goal is to define the most important determinants of the support for the
process of European integration, i.e. to detect the key factors that affect the
formation of public attitudes related to this issue.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Law |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law |
| Depositing User: | Jovan Andonovski |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2020 07:50 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2020 10:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/26622 |
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