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Agenda-setting by the European Commission. Seeking public opinion?
2016
Journal of European Public Policy
Historically, the European Commission has followed an expert-based depoliticized route to gain attention for policy issues and the credibility to deal with them. Given growing politicization, we ask whether the Commission might increasingly seek citizens' views and whether there is patterned variation. We provide the first mapping of special Eurobarometers, the massive instrument for issue-specific public opinion. We found a steep increase and a curvilinear pattern: public opinion is rarely
doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1249014
fatcat:4sbucpgbcvcvpg2shg6et7d4h4