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SEVERAL INTEGRATION THEORISTS SUCH AS HAAS (1958), DEUTSCH (1957) AND NYE (1971) HAVE INDICATED THAT ONE OF THE CENTRAL QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE FURTHER POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IS THAT OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION. DUETSCH PLACES A GREATER EMPHASIS ON MASS SOCIAL COMMUNICATION, WHEREAS HAAS CONSIDERS THAT ELITE SOCIAL COMMUNICATION (AND TRANSFER OF LOYALITIES) WOULD BE A NECESSARY PREREQUISITE OF ANY FURTHER EUROPEAN POLITICAL INTERGRATION. IN A LATER ARTICLE HAAS (1971) SUGGESTS A NEW 'MASTER CONCEPT', WHERE HE STATES THAT IN ORDER TO INTERRELATE ALL THE VARIOUS FUNCTIONALLY SPECIFIC ISSUES, ONE REQUIRES A MASTER CONCEPT; THAT IS, A NOTION 'AUTHORITY-LEGITIMACY TRANSFER'. HASS FURTHER SUGGESTS THAT A MEASURE WHICH IS NOT CONSTRAINED TO A GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING IS THAT OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION. THIS CAN BE MEASURED BY OBSERVING ELITE AND MASS PERCEPTIONS.

Looks at television news during the month of the official election campaign, and then uses the British Election Campaign Study panel survey to see what influence television had on the electorate in that short span of time. (Abstract amended)