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Government Information Services and European Enlargement: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Bulgaria
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Government Information Services and the European Enlargement
A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Bulgaria
Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts government information services and public attitudes towards the EU enlargement process in the UK as a member-state and Bulgaria as a candidate-country. The findings indicate that government public statements tend to have reached a greater degree of uniformity than public perceptions. In their public messages, the governments of both the UK and Bulgaria demonstrate a consistent support for the enlargement process. Public opinion, however, especially in the member-state, still shows a significant degree of uncertainty as regards to the expected effects of enlargement. From both sides of the enlargement process people feel uninformed about the practicalities of the EU expansion. Therefore, governments need to make an additional public diplomacy effort by improving the functioning of their information services and their interaction with the media to bridge the gaps both between government messages and national public attitudes and public perceptions in the member state and the candidate country.
Denitza A. Bojinova
University of Houston
March 16, 2005
Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of
the Southwestern Political Science Association
New Orleans, March 23-26, 2005
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Government Information Services and the European Enlargement
A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Bulgaria
Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts government information services and public
attitudes towards the EU enlargement process in the UK as a member-state and
Bulgaria as a candidate-country. The findings indicate that government public
statements tend to have reached a greater degree of uniformity than public
perceptions. In their public messages, the governments of both the UK and
Bulgaria demonstrate a consistent support for the enlargement process. Public
opinion, however, especially in the member-state, still shows a significant degree
of uncertainty as regards to the expected effects of enlargement. From both sides
of the enlargement process people feel uninformed about the practicalities of the
EU expansion. Therefore, governments need to make an additional public
diplomacy effort by improving the functioning of their information services and
their interaction with the media to bridge the gaps both between government
messages and national public attitudes and public perceptions in the member
state and the candidate country.
Denitza A. Bojinova
University of Houston
March 16, 2005
Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of
the Southwestern Political Science Association
New Orleans, March 23-26, 2005
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