CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Brenner, Dominik |
|---|---|
| Title | From Silence to Salience: Free Trade Protest and the Scandalisation of TTIP from a Comparative Perspective |
| Summary | TTIP, the Preferential Trade Agreement between the EU and the US, developed a variety of public salience and preference differences within the EU. However, such agreements have not been salient before. Furthermore, the public in most of the EU member states revealed positive feelings towards free trade in general. Thus, it is puzzling that these salience and preference differences towards TTIP have emerged. Based on a Google Trends analysis and a media analysis that determined the coverage and tone on the matter, this thesis argues that TTIP is an opportunity structure which can be used by social movements. In cases when social movements took up the opportunity they triggered a scandalisation process. If these movements were professionalised enough in their organisational structure to transmit their framing, media followed up on and faciliated this scandalisation process. The level of media coverage and its tone on the matter then determined the public preference towards TTIP. |
| Supervisor | Bohle, Dorothee |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/brenner_dominik.pdf |
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