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"This chapter aims to find some indications of how and to what extent the Euro (European Single Currency) is portrayed in media coverage from various countries. It investigates the use of metaphors in Euronews. Metaphor is a powerful style form; die way a metaphor is used in public speech reveals citizens' and elites' interests and emotions toward public issues. This was confirmed in several case studies that applied the metaphor model which De Landtsheer (1994, 1998, 2004) developed. The current study focuses on the six months that preceded the public introduction of the Euro in 2002. It examines a 110,435-word sample of media discourse on the Euro from northern and southern Europe and the US covering die period between October 1999 and April 2000. Metaphor use in Euronews by countries that were willing to participate in die Euro was compared with Euronews from countries that were not planning to participate. The results suggest that media discourse on the Euro in so-called Euroland countries was more metaphorical (therefore, emotive and persuasive) than the Euro discourse in the non-Euroland countries." (author's abstract)

"This chapter investigates Polish citizens' perception of national and supranational (European) identities. Poland is one of the 10 (mainly Central and Eastern European) countries that will join the European Union in May 2004. In December 1989, the EU started a program called PHARE (Poland, Hungary Action for Economic Reconstruction). Shortly afterward, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and former Yugoslavia were included. Later, the Baltic States and Rumania were taken in. After December 1991, another step was taken. The trade agreements between most of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe were replaced by broader and more enriching European agreements. According to the needs and expectations of each country, the agreements focused on economic and political expectations for them to finally be prepared for European Union membership. The crucial question concerning their official application for joining the European Union followed not long after. In all of these countries (Slovakia, Malta, Hungary, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia), except for Cyprus, referenda are used to legitimize the EU participation." (author's abstract)

"This chapter argues that websites can be useful to improve democratic citizen-ship. Since political participation is crucial to democracy, political websites should be constructed to enhance citizens' participation. Political websites form a particular case, so does their participation friendliness. Therefore, the participation friendliness of political websites is of great importance. This study explores websites' characteristics that could improve active citizenship. It develops an assessment scheme for the participation friendliness of political websites that takes into account participatory characteristics that are relevant from the point of view of political communication. It also presents an application of this scheme to some political websites in Western and Eastern European countries in 1999. The study reveals profound distinctions between political websites in various Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as well as distinctions between political websites of CEE countries and EU countries." (author's abstract)

The Research Committee on Political Socialization and Education of the International Political Science Association celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019. The RC was recognized by IPSA in 1979 following a solid and successful pioneering phase in the 1960s and '70s. The RC flourished with a full board during 40 years, more than fifty RCPSE panels at IPSA World Congresses, more than thirty RCPSE conferences in thirteen countries, more than 60 RCPSE sponsored books, and its RCPSE journal during 27 years. Research highlights include four international comparative political socialization studies and several political socialization panel studies. For more than thirty different political orientations and behaviours it has been investigated whether political socialization contributes to the explanation of the variance therein. Research focused on eight political socialisation agents and about thirty specific political socializers in these domains. Forty years of research has yielded a lot of insights and an auspicious theory development. Some topics deserve much more attention than they have received so far while new political, economic and social developments require a retest of what was discovered about political socialization in the past and a study of the many new ways, forms and contents of political socialization at the present time and in the future.