ELITE VS. MASS ATTITUDES AND RELATIONS TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (Postoje elit a verejnosti v otazkach europskej integracie)

• Authors: Karvai Alexander
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of this article is to grasp the unique nature of elite-mass relations in the issue of European integration. The most general question of the article is whether the elites represent attitudes of the mass public in the issue of European integration. Due to the parsimony of the research design the author defined three groups of attitudes on a scale from anti-integration to neutral and finally pro-integration. The combination of the three types of attitudes on both elite level and mass level generates a typology of nine theoretically possible relationship types of the elites and the masses in terms of their attitudes to the European integration. In the next step he tried to identify the most important factors affecting the attitudes of the elites and the masses (such as GDP, length of membership, identity, age, and education). The research results are based on statistical data analysis.

Keywords

EN

ATTITUDES; ELITE-MASS RELATIONS; EUROPEAN INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; REPRESENTATION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 54-67
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karvai Alexander

• Alexander Karvai, Katedra politologie, Filozoficka fakulta Univerzity Komenskeho, Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, POBox 1, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA086629