Content Emptiness, Low Media Coverage, Exhausted Parties and Indifferent Voters: An Invisible 2014 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in the Czech Republic

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Charvát
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
The Czech Republic

Czech Public Opinion on Turkey's Accession to the EU: An Analysis through the Lenses of Sociological and Discursive Institutionalism*

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-95
Author(s):  
Pelin Ayan Musil
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Discursive Institutionalism ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Eu

While Turkey lacks significant levels of public support from the Czech Republic in its EU bid, the existing studies of European public opinion on the question of Turkey do not bring any reasonable explanation as to why this can be so. To shed light on this problem, this article offers an analytical framework derived from sociological and discursive institutionalism. First, it shows that the historical/cultural context in the Czech Republic has created an informal institution built around the norms of “othering” Muslim societies like Turkey (sociological institutionalism). Second, based on the media coverage of selected political issues from Turkey between 2005 and 2010, it argues that this institution both enables and constrains the “discursive ability” of the media in communicating these issues to its audience (discursive institutionalism). Since the media—as a political actor—mostly acts to maintain this institution and does not critically debate it, the public opinion of Turkey as the “cultural other” remains as a dominant perception. The official support of the political elite for Turkey's accession to the EU does not countervail the media influence, as this support is often not conveyed to the Czech public agenda.

The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, June 2006

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klára Plecitá-Vlachová ◽  
Mary Stegmaier
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
The Czech Republic

Agents of Europeanization: Think Tanks Discussing the Refugee Crisis in the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542094109
Author(s):  
Markéta Klásková ◽  
Ondřej Císař
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
National Level ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article belongs to the special cluster, “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe”, guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. What is the role of think tanks in Europeanization of national public spheres? To address this question, our paper explores the performance of think tanks in the immigration debate in the Czech Republic. Employing political claims analysis (PCA) and treating think tanks as boundary organizations active in multiple fields, we compare the levels of Europeanization of political claims made by think tanks with other actors. Our data set includes 2,374 political claims made on broadcast public TV in the period from April 2015 to March 2016. According to our quantitative data, Czech think tanks chose the discursive strategy of Europeanization more often than any other actor represented. Thus, think tanks have the potential to support Europeanization of national public spheres. However, their representation in media coverage is relatively low. Our results also demonstrate that think tanks should be treated as sui generis organizations since their strategy in the public sphere deviates from that of other civil society organizations. Think tanks Europeanized their claims-making, but others largely stayed on the national level while discussing the refugee crisis.

scholarly journals Followers, Challengers, or By-Standers?

Intersections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Turcsányi ◽  
Ivana Karásková ◽  
Tamás Matura ◽  
Matej Šimalčík
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
Visegrád Countries

The article answers how growing intensity of China-V4 relations in the period of 2010–2017 impacted the media discourse of China in Central Europe. While diplomatically speaking China and the Visegrad countries reached perhaps the most positive and intensive relations ever, the top-down impact on people’s perceptions is less clear. Media play an important role as an intermediary between the politics and public opinion and their role in EU-China and China-Central Europe relations has been previously discussed. The paper summarizes empirical findings of large-scale research of media reporting related to China in Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from 2010 till mid-2017 in which more than seven thousand media outputs were consulted. It is found that the political relations led to quantitative increase of media coverage of China, yet the qualitative impact is ambivalent, thus questioning the success of Chinese soft power attempts. The discourse on China in the Czech Republic and Hungary is in no small extent politicized, polarized, and media often inform about China based on domestic political considerations, while in Slovakia there is little interest in China overall and media largely follows official narratives and international discourse.

scholarly journals Double Food Quality: Media Coverage in the Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Miroslav Jurásek ◽  
Emil Velinov
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Media Presentation

Nowadays in the globalized and connected world the European markets are becoming more and more secular. However, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the quality of some food products sold in the Central and Eastern European supermarkets is lower than the analogical food items sold in the Western European supermarkets. Numerous studies confirm that food quality, for example in Germany and Austria, is higher than in the Czech Republic and Hungary. Cross – border selling of two different products (in terms of a lower content of primary ingredients or cheaper substitutes) in the same branded packaging is known as a double food quality problem which belongs among the most contentious issues of the actual agenda of the European Union. Without challenging the above – mentioned proves this paper raises the question of the hypothesized politicization of the matter. This exploratory study sheds light on the issue from the political perspective. The paper suggests that the political factors than any others (like consumer preferences or a particular consumer behavior in the Czech Republic) played a crucial role in presenting the topic publicly. The connection between the interest in this subject and its timing with regards to the political cycle in the Czech Republic is demonstrated by means of the (quantitative) media content analysis. If the hypothesis of the suggested connection is confirmed, the media presentation of the matter expressed by the number articles published in the chosen, most read Czech magazines and newspapers tends to be higher towards the Election Day (October 20-21, 2017). The paper puts attempts to classify the relevant media outputs based on the principal participants and their approach towards the matter. This is a secondary objective of the paper.

scholarly journals The role of journalism in combating fake news: the case of the last day of the 2019 election campaign in Portugal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Lima Quintanilha ◽  
Gustavo Cardoso ◽  
Vania Baldi ◽  
Miguel Paisana
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Zero Effect ◽  
The Impact

This article reflects on the role of journalism in the deconstruction of fake news propaganda that came out in the media on the last day of the 2019 parliamentary election campaign in Portugal. We collected news items carried by the Portuguese media and contextualised this media coverage with regard to the impact of disinformation on confidence in the news with the help of data collated as part of the Digital News Report project. We found that journalistic scrutiny, aided by the characteristics of the Portuguese media system, might have contributed to a zero effect of this fake news on the election results, unlike what happened in elections in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil.

scholarly journals Closed Churches during the Pandemic: Liberal versus Conservative and Christian versus Atheist Argumentation in Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-243
Author(s):  
Terézia Rončáková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
The Media ◽  
Comparison Arguments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conservative Media

The current COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of various epidemiological measures, including the ban on public worship. The problem of closed churches has become an intensely debated subject across several countries and a hotly debated question in recent media discourse. This paper provides an analysis of the arguments presented on the subject of closed churches by the media in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In addition to the detailed analysis of the argumentation used, it also presents a twofold comparison: arguments presented in liberal versus conservative media, and arguments presented in the Slovak media versus Czech media. Twenty-eight years ago, these two countries were part of one state and after the split, the countries became a model of a peaceful dissolution (the so-called ‘velvet divorce’). However, from a religious perspective, they are quite different: whereas Slovakia is one of the most Christian (Catholic) countries, the Czech Republic is one of the most atheist countries in Europe. Three research dimensions are presented as part of this study: (1) media argumentation on the problem of closed churches; (2) comparison of liberal versus conservative arguments; (3) comparison of the media coverage in a strongly Christian country versus a strongly atheist country.

Votes, seats and power: 1996 Parliamentary election in the Czech Republic

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Turnovec
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Relative Influence ◽  
Power Indices ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Voting Power ◽  
Lower House

This paper gives a brief survey of the results of the 1996 election to the Lower House and the Upper House of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Methodology of power indices is used to evaluate voting power and relative influence of the parties represented in the parliament. A comparison with the 1992 electoral results is provided. The regional dimension of the electoral results is discussed, and a hypothetical impact of different values of electoral threshold on the structure of parliament is analyzed.

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