• DOI:10.1111/jcms.12527
Corpus ID: 151394355

Rethinking Britain and the European Union: Politicians, the Media and Public Opinion Reconsidered

@article{Copeland2017RethinkingBA,
  title={Rethinking Britain and the European Union: Politicians, the Media and Public Opinion Reconsidered},
  author={P. Copeland and N. Copsey},
  journal={Public Choice: Analysis of Collective Decision-Making eJournal},
  year={2017}
}

P. Copeland, N. Copsey

Published 2017

Sociology

Public Choice: Analysis of Collective Decision-Making eJournal

This article re-examines the role of the media in the UK debate on EU membership. It argues that the embedding of euroscepticism in the UK stems neither from a single phase in the UK-EU relationship, nor from the agency of the UK press or its proprietors. Rather, it resulted from the long-standing absence of any pro-European faction within the British polity was able to argue for, or defend, the European Union within the UK national debate. In explaining this, we expand on the concept of 'issue… CONTINUE READING

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