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The Great Non‐Communicator? The Mass Communication Deficit of the European Parliament and its Press Directorate

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  • PETER J. ANDERSON
  • AILEEN McLEOD

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This article was prompted by the poor turnout for the 1999 European Parliament elections and the failure of MEPs since to address effectively key causes of electoral apathy. It focuses on the extent to which the Parliament's press and information directorate, DG‐III, and to a lesser extent, MEPs, are successful in handling their relationships with the mass media, given that the latter is a crucial means of communicating images of the Parliament to the electorate. Having unearthed serious inadequacies in the communication performance of the Parliament, the article investigates the causes of these and the likelihood of their being addressed. The article largely reflects the situation with regard to press and information policy as far as it could be discerned up and until March 2002 (with the exception of the website and external office updates which were undertaken during 2003). Among other things, it paves the way for further studies of the relationship between the European Parliament and the media which will focus on the recent 2004 elections.

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  • PETER J. ANDERSON & AILEEN McLEOD, 2004. "The Great Non‐Communicator? The Mass Communication Deficit of the European Parliament and its Press Directorate," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(5), pages 897-917, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:42:y:2004:i:5:p:897-917
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-9886.2004.00534.x
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    1. Loveless, Matthew & Rohrschneider, Robert, . "Public perceptions of the EU as a system of governance," Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG), Institute for European integration research (EIF).
    2. Dorian Pocovnicu & Madalina Manolache & Gheorghe Epuran, 2013. "A Framing Of Future European Parliament Elections 2014 In A Social Media Context," Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Faculty of Economic Sciences, issue 18.
    3. Katjana Gattermann, 2013. "News about the European Parliament: Patterns and external drivers of broadsheet coverage," European Union Politics, , vol. 14(3), pages 436-457, September.
    4. Roman Senninger & Markus Wagner, 2015. "Political parties and the EU in national election campaigns: who talks about Europe, and how?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(6), pages 1336-1351, November.
    5. Nicholas Clark & Timothy Hellwig, 2012. "Information effects and mass support for EU policy control," European Union Politics, , vol. 13(4), pages 535-557, December.

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