Acceptance of democracy and public relations: Attitudes in a transitional country

White, Christopher C.; Imre, Iveta

doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2013.07.011

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“…Transition countries are located in a gray zone politically, which deters an effective free competition mechanism [7]. However, due to the legacy of communism, an external synergy effect throughout the reciprocal interaction is still outstanding in 𝑅.…”

Section: Basic Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan are Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) members. This dichotomy is worth pursuing because previous studies have reported that Central Eastern European countries show similar business cycles as the EU whereas other transition economies show idiosyncratic business cycles [7] [8].…”

Section: Research Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Mechanism Design for the Firm Performance Analysis of Transition Economies

Yim¹

2023

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Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, transition countries have adopted the market economy system. However, some of these countries are currently more tied in reciprocal economic relationships with European Union members, the pro-EU group, while[ others continue to maintain preexisting ties, the pro-Russia group. The purpose of this paper is set to tackle how firms perform differently across two groups both theoretically and empirically. In particular, a game model is first developed to evaluate if an ex-communist country networking effect persists. Second, if it has resulted in deterioration of the firm performance of the pro-Russia group compared to that of the pro-EU group, and third if a networking effect is able to enhance the firm performance of the pro-Russia group. The predictions of the model are tested empirically with two regression models controlling for the size effect of the firms within the transitional economies. Because long-lasting political ties with Russia in CEE countries can generate endogeneity, a 2SLS estimation using a secondary data is attempted for testing some propositions. The dataset is collected from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey jointly constructed by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The empirical results have two important findings based on the secondary data. First, in terms of innovative capability and input-output efficiency, firms in the pro-EU group outperform those in the pro-Russia group. Second, the networking effect can compensate for firm performance in the pro-Russia group even though firm efficiency is lower than the pro-EU group. The findings of the paper suggest two kinds of business strategies. First, between transitional economies and pro-Russian countries, the former is a better place for making investments as the former can request to pay higher embedded costs. Second, the networking effect of pro-Russian countries cannot be discounted. Indirect exports based on a mutual long-term relationship across pro-Russian countries while pivoting on Russia are a non-negligible factor.

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Section: Basic Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Instrumentmentioning

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A Mechanism Design for the Firm Performance Analysis of Transition Economies

Yim¹

2023

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“…Interval Effectiveness (2013); White and Imre (2013), that the growth of democracy and transparency establishes the quality of public relations activities. A higher mean score for asymmetric communication than symmetric communication, as presented in Figure 1, appears to be connected to Ikhsan's (2015) study.…”

Section: Communication Models Applied In Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Not just about representative: When democracy needs females and their competency to run Indonesian government public relations to management level

Kriyantono

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Tawakkal

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The democratic era has promoted transparency, public participation, and open access on public information, therefore, public relations is considered an integral part of the democratic process. The study is not only about genders representation, but also the outcome of involving genders and their competence in managerial positions. This study aims to portray the outcome of employing male and female and their competency in managing government public relations in Indonesia. An online survey on 102 public relations practitioners from various government institutions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and univariate formula. The research reveals that government public relations have applied two-way communication models and resulted in an excellent outcome on Indonesian democratization. The findings affirm that the emerging democracy has encouraged effective practices and challenge public information, the previous model that government institutions provided. Results show different outcomes on two-way communication when male or female manages the model. On the managerial level, the female practitioners have proper competence implement the model at a higher level than males. Since gender issue in government public relations practices has been little investigated, this study recommends the Indonesian governments to provide more opportunities for female practitioners as part of the top management in public relations divisions. The government needs to change its mind-set that gender issue takes into account not only representativeness but also their competence.

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“…The essential nature of rhetorical citizenship is support for community and productive relatedness both of which presume the ability to shape rhetorical arenas, infrastructurally and advocatively. Willingness to accept democratic institutions and processes are preconditions if public relations is able to gain acceptance as democratic (White & Imre, 2013).…”

Section: Individual Level Ethics: Message Design and Executionmentioning

confidence: 99%