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%0 Thesis
%A Flader, Robert
%T Die öffentliche Akzeptanz der Europäischen Union in Großbritannien. Britische Printmedien und ihr Einfluss auf das Wahlverhalten ihrer Leser am Beispiel des EU-Referendums 2016
%I Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
%V Dissertation
%C Aachen
%M RWTH-2018-231011
%P 1 Online-Ressource ( 333 Seiten) : Illustrationen
%D 2018
%Z Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University
%Z Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2018
%X The dissertation’s aim is to examine the public acceptance of the European Union in Great Britain, illustrated on the EU referendum 2016 from the media’s point of view. The author analyzed five different daily newspapers - the more serious “broadsheets” The Guardian, The Times and the “tabloids” The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express and how they are reporting EU related themes and the referendum campaign throughout the hotly debated british EU referendum 2016. The author wanted to know what, if, kind of influence they had on the dramatic result of the EU referendum 2016, in which a majority of the british voters chose to leave the European Union. Even in a digitalized world where most of the people get their main information through the internet, british print media still plays an important part in forming public opinion and in playing an important part as an active political “player”. To prove this thesis on it’s correctness, the author examined historical events like past national elections and referendums on british soil, i.e. the EEC-referendum 1975 or the Scottish referendum 2014. The examination period was April 16th 2016 to July 13th 2016, the start of the official referendum campaign until the resignation of Premier Minister David Cameron. The Dissertation consists of three main parts: the first describes the relationship between the United Kingdom and Europe respectively the European institutions. The history and the self-image of Great Britain play a major part in understanding why the British People ultimately voted to leave the European Union on June 23rd 2016. In this part the relatively new scientific phenomenon “euroscepticism” is a central object to describe the rise of populism in the UK and across Europe. In the second part of the dissertation the main examination objects are introduced: The Guardian, The Times, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Exrpess. What kind of coverage can be extracted? How are they reporting European issues relating Great Britain? The empirical work follows in the third part of the dissertation: The author was able to connect geographical lines of where “Leave”-voters and readers of certain newspapers, especially The Sun and The Daily Mail, are living and connects these findings with the actual voting on June 23rd 2016. Finally, the results the author found in his examination are put in the difficult context of the british-european relationship. As a conclusion the author found results, which lead to the assumption that several of the big british newspapers were major active “players” in the referendum campaign and at least co-responsible for the dramatic and hard-pressed vote of the British People to leave the European Union.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)11
%9 Dissertation / PhD Thesis
%R 10.18154/RWTH-2018-231011
%U https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/751009