Postoje elít a verejnosti v otázkach európskej integrácie
Elite vs. Mass Attitudes and Relations towards the European Integration

Summary/Abstract: 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 research design I defined three groups of attitudes on a scale from anti-integrational to neutral and finally pro-integrational. The combination of the three types of attitudes on both elite level and mass level generates a typology of nine theoretically possible types the relationship of the elites and the masses in terms of their attitudes to the European integration. In the next step I 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.

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