Public Opinion, Political Behaviour, and Voting: Exploring Diversity

During the 2015 migration wave, Hungary was a transit, rather than a target, country for migrants fleeing from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe. In reaction to this, Viktor Orbán’s right-wing populist government built a wall on the country’s southern border and launched an anti-migration communication campaign, portraying itself as the saviour of European, Hungarian and Christian values. This article reconstructs the messages and effects of this campaign. It finds that in a context of limited political and media pluralism, an anti-migration campaign may exert a significant impact on public opinion and political behaviour.

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On the Problem of Mediatization of Intra-Territorial Conflicts in China: A Historiographic Aspect

Russian and Chinese Studies ◽

10.17150/2587-7445.2021.5(4).243-249 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 243-249

Author(s):

Limei Yang ◽

Olga Degtyareva

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Mainland China ◽

Political Behaviour ◽

Territorial Identity ◽

Regional Conflict ◽

Territorial Conflicts ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact

This article explores the role of the media in covering the conflict potential of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The aim of the study is to analyze the media’s influence on the transformation of public opinion on issues of ethnic or territorial identity. Based on Chinese and Western media coverage, the reasons for unbalanced coverage of intra-territorial conflicts as well as the impact of stereotypes on political behaviour are identified. On the basis of the analysis the role of specific media in neutralizing the intra-regional conflict potential is determined, as well as the peculiarities of the technology of public opinion molding on the part of mainland China.

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Social Context and Inter-Group Political Attitudes: Experiments in Group Conflict Theory

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123403000279 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 607-620 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

JAMES M. GLASER

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Social Context ◽

Political Attitudes ◽

Conflict Theory ◽

Group Conflict ◽

Political Behaviour ◽

Racial Environments ◽

Group Conflict Theory ◽

The Relationship ◽

Racial Balance

Previous studies of group conflict theory look at the relationship between racial balance in a particular area (precinct, county, etc.) and racial attitudes or political behaviour within that area. While of value, there are significant methodological disadvantages to this approach. Here, I address those problems using public opinion experiments in which I ask respondents whether they would allocate political goods proportionally given different (randomly assigned) hypothetical racial environments. The experiment yields confirmatory results, with non-blacks more likely to support proportionality in less black than heavily black environments. In a second experiment, I find that the same relationship is much weaker when the variations in population are non-racial. Finally, I show that the relationship also holds for blacks and argue that this is theoretically consistent.

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