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Wratil, Christopher, Waeckerle, Jens and Proksch, Sven-Oliver ORCID: 0000-0002-6130-6498 . Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev.. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1537-5943

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Abstract

The role of domestic public opinion is an important topic in research on international negotiations, yet we know little about how exactly it manifests itself. We focus on government rhetoric during negotiations and develop a conceptual distinction between implicit and explicit manifestations of public opinion. Drawing on a database of video recordings of negotiations of the Council of the European Union and a quantitative text analysis of government speeches, we find that public opinion matters implicitly, with the exact pattern depending on governments' stance toward the EU. Pro-EU governments are responsive to public opinion in their support for compromises and attempts to stall negotiations, whereas Euroskeptic governments tend to remain silent when confronted with a public positively disposed toward the EU. Our results show that although governments implicitly represent public opinion, they do not systematically invoke their voters explicitly, suggesting the public matters but in different ways than often assumed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Wratil, Christopher UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Waeckerle, Jens UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Proksch, Sven-Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6130-6498 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-667358
DOI:	10.1017/S0003055422001198
Journal or Publication Title:	Am. Polit. Sci. Rev.
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1537-5943
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EUROPEAN-UNION EVIDENCE; BARGAINING SUCCESS; DECISION-MAKING; COUNCIL; EU; RESPONSIVENESS; POWER; TEXT Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66735