The press reporting of European economic and monetary union in four European countries: a comparative analysis
In: Democratization, Europeanization, and globalization trends: cross-national analysis of authoritarianism, socialization, communications, youth, and social policy, S. 361-378
"The current study aims to analyze certain trends in reporting about the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the press of four EU countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It examines the profile that the new currency has acquired when it was launched and particularly, the extent to which the currency is profiled in press reporting as a matter of national versus transnational as well as economic versus political significance. The purpose of this type of analysis is to examine the 'framing' of EMU. This study follows a well-established tradition in which media output is analyzed to examine how cumulative reporting of an issue (or a series of linked issues) results in a more or less coherent profile of the issue in question." (author's abstract)