A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 564-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kovář
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Economic Consequence ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
News Framing ◽  
Over Time

A developing literature on the securitisation of immigration documents the prominence of security-based framing, but its prevalence has not been systematically established in Central and Eastern Europe through an analysis of the relative importance of various immigration-related frames. Using content analysis, this study tests the securitisation of the immigration thesis in the coverage of the refugee crisis between 2013 and 2016 in Czech and Slovak media ( N = 7,910), in particular focusing on frame variation over time, and on differences between quality and tabloid media. The results reveal that the security-threat frame is the dominant frame, while economic framing is significantly less frequent in regard to the topic. While both quality media and tabloids employ the security-threat frame often, it is significantly more prominent in tabloids. In sum, these results confirm the existence of a pre-eminent securitised interpretation of immigration in the region during the crisis.

scholarly journals DeCovidation = Deinstitutionalization. Independent Living and Inclusion in the Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Rasa Genienė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Soviet Regime ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The global coronovirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been revealed what about half of the world’s deaths are recorded in large institutions of the elderly and people with disabilities, and these are later thought to be incentives for states to take active deinstitutionalisation efforts. In order for deinstitutionalisation actions to respond to its ideological origins, which lie in the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the necessary legal instruments and in clarifying that Member States are responsible. The article reveals how the deinstitutionalisation processes that have already started are implemented and evaluated in Central and Eastern Europe and discusses their problems. Content analysis was used to investigate the Soviet regime, leading to the implementation of official and alternative (shadow) reports on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Central and Eastern Europe: The New Core or the Periphery of Europe?

2020 ◽  
pp. 162-181
Author(s):  
Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
The Eu

This chapter focuses on Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states of the EU, and how they positioned themselves in the new constellation of conflicts within the EU in the aftermath of the multiple crisis. It deals mainly with the Visegrad Group (V4) and explores its ‘repositioning’ in regard to two crisis-ridden policy fields of the EU: controversies about the rule of law and the refugee crisis. With regard to the former issue, the chapter discusses Poland as the most prominent case among the CEE countries. Against this background, it highlights two specific aspects of domestic politics: the memory games that the V4 countries play with their past and the Euroscepticism of government circles as well as a broader public.

Meanings of Independence and Manifestations of Neoliberal Nationalism during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Central and Eastern Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aija Lulle
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Eu

The Eastern European political and para-political responses to the ‘refugee crisis’ demonstrate a schism between the ‘old’ and the ‘new Europe’. Hostile attitudes reveal how unresolved post-imperial pasts currently manifest themselves in a seeming inability to show solidarity and empathy for the human suffering of others. To address this question critically, I utilize the notion of ‘independence’ to disentangle the specific neoliberal political mentality that has developed in the Central and Eastern European region, along with a variety of ethno-nationalisms which relive their own past wounds. In countries which have wiped away almost all reminders of their socialist past, solidarity and collectivity are not widely subscribed-to values. Apart from the immediate need to act alongside other European countries and help to accommodate current refugee flows, the Eastern Bloc has a long and necessary journey ahead. This is to negotiate and address their own social and cultural pluralities, which have been deliberately ignored in the rush to join the club of the worlds’ wealthiest democracies in the EU. During this formally accelerated political process, insufficient attention has been paid to social transformations in these new EU countries, including their reluctance to take in and accommodate new migrants and refugees.

scholarly journals THE CREATION OF FISCAL SPACE FOR THE PROPERTY TAX: THE CASE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE / NEKILNOJAMOJO TURTO MOKESČIO FISKALINĖS ERDVĖS SUKŪRIMAS: CENTRINĖS IR RYTŲ EUROPOS ATVEJIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. McCluskey ◽  
Frances Plimmer
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Fiscal Space ◽  
The Eu

The case for the property tax as a significant revenue generator has been well made by many eminent scholars in public finance. It nonetheless continues to remain a tax that is under-utilised in many transition countries. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is the fiscal space to develop the property tax within the eight CEE1 countries that joined the EU in May 2004. Currently, property tax revenues within the selected countries represent approximately 0.5% of GDP, whilst the average for the OECD is just over 1%. This difference in relative importance would appear to suggest that, whilst there is potential for the property tax to create greater revenues, there are structural problems that are preventing this. The paper highlights a number of these problems and suggests mechanisms to address them. It is argued that properly designed, the property tax could crowd out many of the ‘nuisance’ taxes and fees that already exist within local government. Santrauka Nekilnojamojo turto mokestis, kaip neišsenkamas pajamų šaltinis, formuojantis valstybės biudžetą, yra įvairiai ištirtas įžymių mokslininkų. Vis dėlto dauguma pereinamojo laikotarpio valstybių šio mokesčio netaiko. Šio straipsnio tikslas – išsiaiškinti, ar aštuoniose Centrinės ir Rytų Europos valstybėse, įstojusiose į Europos Sąjungą 2004 m. gegužės mėnesį, yra pakankamai fiskalinės erdvės nekilnojamojo turto mokesčiui taikyti. Šiuo metu pajamos, gaunamos dėl nekilnojamojo turto mokesčio pasirinktose valstybėse, sudaro 0,5% BVP, kai EBPO vidurkis viršija 1%. Sąlyginė šio skirtumo svarba gali reikšti tai, kad kol yra galimybė gauti didesnes pajamas taikant nekilnojamojo turto mokestį, tol egzistuos ir struktūrinių problemų, neleidžiančių pasinaudoti šia galimybe. Darbe nurodomos tokios problemos ir siūlomi jų sprendimo mechanizmai. Pateikiami argumentai, kaip tinkamai apskaičiuotas nekilnojamojo turto mokestis gali pakeisti daugumą ,,atsibodusių“ mokesčių ir rinkliavų, kurias vis dar taiko vietiniai valdžios organai.

Intraparty democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 652-662
Author(s):  
Benjamin von dem Berge ◽  
Peter Obert
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression

In the postcommunist period, political parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had to convincingly demonstrate that they are a vital part of a functioning democratic society. Well-developed intraparty democracy (IPD) is one way of accomplishing this. By asking what factors are relevant to an explanation of IPD formation, we present an analytical framework in which the formation of IPD can be investigated and explore the patterns of IPD and their determinants. We draw on a newly constructed data set based on standardized content analysis, including 129 party statutes from 14 major political parties from Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia between 1989 and 2011. Relying on unit fixed-effects regression approaches, our analyses suggest that especially imperatives related to party origin and Europeanization have important implications for the formation of IPD within CEE parties.

The 2015 refugee crisis, uncertainty and the media: Representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in Austrian and French media

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 841-863
Author(s):  
Anita Gottlob ◽  
Hajo Boomgaarden
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMedia coverage of migration and migrants can exert considerable influence on the public’s understanding of and attitudes towards migration. During the peak of what has been called ‘the refugee crisis’ in 2015, heated discussions about immigration and its possible impact filled the media landscape. This study focuses specifically on the news framing of insecurities regarding immigration, exploring what we have termed ‘uncertainty frames’ in the coverage of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. This study will thus lend empirical support to a novel attempt to combine the concepts of uncertainty, risk, and framing. These frames were analyzed within French and Austrian media from 2015 to 2016. Drawing on a content analysis of tabloid and broadsheet articles, different types of uncertainty frames (economy, values, society, etc.) as well as different types of solution frames (the kind of solutions provided for the issue of immigration) were examined. Results suggest that even though all frames decrease in salience over time, important variations in different types of uncertainty frames do appear. It is argued that frames related to abstract issues seem to stay more salient throughout time in both countries.

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