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The account given so far tends to support the proposition that ministers and officials were able to develop European policy for the most part independently of the people, of parliament - and even of the cabinet. In so far as this was true, it was due primarily to the low salience attached to the issue by the public and parliament alike. While the government might have found difficulty in discouraging interest in an issue that was seen by the people to affect their everyday lives, the same could not be said of a question that held very little broad appeal. Here, ministers were able, through their own low-key approach to the matter, to effect policy with the minimum of interference either from the public or from its representatives in parliament.
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© 1996 Jacqueline Tratt
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Tratt, J. (1996). Pressure, Politics and Persuasion. In: The Macmillan Government and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377714_8
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