European Union Think Tanks and Public Affairs: A Fine Line between Independence and Advocacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
Hans Martens
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Fine Line

Content and framing in radio news bulletins in urban and rural Hungary

2020 ◽  
pp. 026732312096683
Author(s):  
Henrik Hargitai
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The State ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Ecosystem Diversity ◽  
Rural Media ◽  
Radio News

This analysis provides a detailed snapshot of the radio news landscape in Hungary, a European-Union-member ‘illiberal state’ in mid-April 2018, a few weeks after the general election. In this study, we wished to quantitatively characterize radio news broadcasts. This is the first study that provides a detailed analysis of contemporary radio news output across all formats, target audiences, owners and regions in Hungary. The study uses several quantitative and geographic indicators that include objective elements such as news ecosystem diversity, local news production, news about local issues, sound bites, credited political press, news sections and more subjective news framing and a framing-based bias indicator. Our results show that the ideological diversity of radio news was far the highest in the Budapest region. MTVA, the state media provider had significantly more politically biased news than other stations. Local radios never criticized local public affairs. A few stations in Budapest did broadcast balanced, pro-opposition and critical news, but they were in minority over pro-government news items that dominated the rural media landscape with significantly less choice.

scholarly journals Use of TOPSIS Method for Assessing of Good Governance in European Union Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Ardielli
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Order Preference

Abstract Good Governance presents the contemporary trend of managing public affairs worldwide. This concept is promoting the basic elements of subsidiarity, participation, and democracy in modern public administration. Presented article is focused on the evaluation of Good Governance development in the European Union countries in the long-term, in the period 2007–2017. The evaluation is based on the application of multiple criteria decision-making methods, concrete The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The original data used in the research were the values of Worldwide Governance Indicators monitored and processed by the World Bank. The article presents a complete assessment of European Union countries according to the level of Good Governance. There are identified countries that have been successful in this area in the long-term, in particular the Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden and Denmark. On the contrary, there are countries that show greater shortcomings in terms of Good Governance as Romania, Bulgaria or Greece. The European Union countries were also grouped into clusters and the overview of rankings of individual countries for the period 2007–2017 was completed.

scholarly journals Typology of think tanks: A comparative study in Finland and Scotland

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Mykkänen Markus ◽  
Freshwater Neil
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Politics ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Research Publications

This paper provides a comparative analysis of current Finnish and Scottish think tanks and reviews how think tanks in these countries have evolved, how think tanks seek to influence decision making and engage with their stakeholders. To address the ways of influence this paper looks how Finnish and Scottish think tanks describe themselves and how they use publications in their advocacy. Conducted content analysis indicates that usually registered association based Finnish think tanks are generally more research-focused organisations, who overall deploy more research publications for advocacy than the company based Scottish think tanks. Findings also reveal that the number of think tanks in both countries has greatly increased in the last two decades due to the political challenges with European Union and national politics. The paper provides a new approach to study think tanks in national contexts.

scholarly journals Reputation of Poland in the Public Opinion of the Countries of Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century in the Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Neprytskyi ◽  
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Łukasz Donaj ◽  
Oleh Romanov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic

Relevance of the topic of the research is determined by the necessity to systemize the works on the study of the reputation of the Republic of Poland during the period of transformation finalization and negotiations on accession to the European Union, which will allow to use them in the future both for the scientific and research work as well as for the application of best practices of national branding in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to study the content and value of the studies of the Institute of Public Affairs dedicated to the topic of reputation of Poland in the countries of Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. Methodology of the research is based on the combination of general (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and specific (historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-systemic, sociocultural) scientific methods with the principals of historicism, systematicity, scientificity and verification. The Institute of Public Affairs was one of the leading analytical centers of the Republic of Poland. The studies, conducted by the Institute, have shown what reputation Poland and the Polish had in the public opinion of the countries of Europe during the phase of active negotiations on the country’s accession to the EU. The IPA’s experts analysed the information about Poland provided by the European media. The researchers provided extensive empirical data as well as the analysis of the theoretical aspect of reputation formation and illustrated the functioning and shift of historical stereotypes. Conclusions. According to the results of the studies of the Institute of Public Affairs, at the very beginning of the 21st century the country had a reputation during the negotiations on the accession to the European Union, which was caused by negative stereotypes. This situation could have been rectified (and in the end, it was rectified), as the historical stereotypes are slowly eliminated, however, they are being changed under the influence of contemporary reality. Mass media play a significant role in this process, being the mirror of public mood and an instrument for shaping it. At the same time, a positive image of Poland was formed in the public opinion of Ukraine, however, Ukraine itself had a bad reputation among the population of Poland, which should have served as an implication for the representatives of the Ukrainian governing elites to take the necessary similar steps.

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