Spanish media and the EU referendum 2016: the assault on an enlightened project

Fernando León-Solís; Enric Castelló; Hugh O’Donnell

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_12

Spanish media and the EU referendum 2016: the assault on an enlightened project

Fernando León-Solís^*, Enric Castelló, Hugh O’Donnell

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The amount of coverage of the 2016 EU referendum in the Spanish media was remarkable. This is not surprising as Brexit was seen as a threat to a European project celebrated for having delivered political, social and economic benefits to Spain in consonance with the values of the European Enlightenment of universal reality-based rationality. However, one of the most salient factors in the Spanish media coverage is related to the internal political life of the country, and, as a result, there was no homogeneous Spanish view. Instead, a range of ideologically grounded interpretations was produced in which the independence of Catalonia featured as highly as the future of the European Union.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reporting the Road to Brexit
Editors	A. Ridge-Newman, F. León-Solís, H. O'Donnell
Place of Publication	[S.I.]
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	207-222
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319736822
ISBN (Print)	9783319736815
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_12
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 May 2018

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Spanish media
referendum
representative democracy
people
populism

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