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Early in the EC institutions’ planning for direct elections it became apparent that the campaign would be unique, and that the world’s first transnational elections would generate a plethora of organizational and political problems for which there were few national and no European precedents. These problems would be particularly acute for the two EC institutions — the Commission and the European Parliament (EP) — having a major role in the campaign.
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See V. Herman, Parliaments of the World: A Reference Compendium (London: Macmillan, 1976) ch. 46.
V. Herman, ‘Direct Elections: The Historical Background’, in V. Herman and M. Hagger (eds), The Legislation of Direct Elections to the European Parliament ( Farnborough: Gower, 1980 ) pp. 14–29.
For details, see M. Sprengelmaier, Public Relations für Europa (Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1976) pp. 92ff.
See D. Butler and U. Kitzinger, The 1975 Referendum (London: acmillan,1976)
and A. King, Britain Says Yes (Washington: American Institute for Public Policy Research, 1977).
Willem Schuijt, ‘The European Community: The Great Unknown?’, CD Europa Bulletin no. 7, 1977, pp. 8–9.
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Lodge, J., Herman, V. (1982). The Background to the Institutions’ Information Programmes. In: Direct Elections to the European Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04454-2_2
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