Turkey in the EU?: How cultural and economic frames affect support for Turkish accession

Comparative European Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 218-235

  De Vreese, Claes H ^a   Van Der Brug, Wouter ^a   Hobolt, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EU enlargement; Framing; Muslim; Religious diversity; Survey experiment; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858188882     PISSN: 14724790     EISSN: 1740388X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cep.2011.27     Document Type: Article

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