Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

König, Pascal D.

doi:10.1177/1369148115625380

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“…Many studies in political and administrative science have shown how institutions change their communication strategies in crises, to guarantee transparent procedures and decisions, and to alleviate anxiety caused by uncertainty and the lack of information [17][18][19][20].…”

Section: Institutional Communication During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemics on the Development of Health Risk Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

Valenti

Mirabile

Cannone³

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Starting from an analysis of communication in Italy during the COVID-19 emergency period (February–June 2020), this paper provides an overview of the main challenges and opportunities for communication during pandemics. The purpose of this study is to perform a literature review contributing to the identification of practical recommendations for the improvement of current risk communication strategies. Given the variety of the parties involved in communication and the peculiarity of the theme, an integrated analysis approach was adopted, based on the connections between institutional, scientific and mass communication. On one hand, the “emotional” character of Italian institutional communication aimed at promoting solidarity and unity among citizens. On the other hand, scientific communication played a key role both as a technical and scientific consultation for the policymaker, and as a guide for mass communication. Nevertheless, a lack of awareness emerged from the institutional and scientific side of the importance of an interface between science and effective, transparent policy. It thus becomes necessary to develop new and effective communication strategies aimed at facing uncertainties and the challenges of risk communication in epidemics and pandemics. Such strategies should consider interaction between public health, human and social sciences, political science, law, ethics, communication and media studies, as each of these areas may give an important contribution to the understanding of the context in which communication occurs.

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Section: Institutional Communication During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemics on the Development of Health Risk Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

Valenti

Mirabile

Cannone³

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…Of course, exceptions prove the rule: individual German and/or Germany-based scholars have occasionally offered wide-ranging comparative assessments of political executives in Western Europe and the US, Central-Eastern Europe, and Latin America (see, for example, Helms 2008;Müller-Rommel 2011;Grotz and Müller-Rommel 2015;Inácio and Llanos 2015;König 2016).…”

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Is there a ‘German school’ of comparative politics? An institutional perspective

2017

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Looking at scientific research in terms of 'schools' marks an established way of evaluating larger research areas. In this paper, we deliberately use a soft concept of 'school', designed to capture possible peculiarities of the discipline of Comparative Politics in Germany, and its impact at the international level of political research. The focus of our inquiry is on three major sub-areas of comparative political studies-comparative executive politics, comparative legislative research, and comparative federalism research-which can be meaningfully subsumed under the label of institution-centred comparative political research. Moreover, we focus basically on the developments of the past decade. We find that the size of the German, or German-language, community of comparative politics has long worked to keep the pressure for German or Germany-based scholars to publish their research in English low, though the language of publication alone cannot be considered a valid indicator of either scientific excellence or parochialism. Data collected for the past decade, measuring the share of contributions by German or Germany-based scholars in the internationally leading specialist journals of the sub-areas examined, suggest that the discipline has 'opened up' and 'reached out' more recently. That said, for the time being, the German comparative politics community in the three sub-areas studied continues to be considerably stronger at the receiving end, in terms of paying reasonable attention to the theoretical and empirical developments at the international level, than at actively shaping the international debate. As in other areas, exceptions prove the rule.

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“…Since then, a plethora of studies has found a wide variety of blame avoidance strategies both in relation to how retrenchment is organized and how it is communicated (e.g. Hering 2008;Hinterleitner and Sager 2015;König 2016;Wenzelburger 2011). Following the notion of political business cycles (Nordhaus 1975;cf.…”

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How governments strategically time welfare state reform legislation: empirical evidence from five European countries

Wenzelburger

Jensen

Lee

et al. 2019

West European Politics

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Building on studies on the political business cycle, the literature on welfare state retrenchment has argued that governments which cut the welfare state try to avoid blame by implementing painful measures in the beginning of the mandate and expanding benefits as elections approach. In contrast to this linear relationship, we argue that governments often feel pressured to fulfill (mostly expansionary) campaign promises during the first months in office. Consequently, cutting right away is not what should be expected. Instead, a more nuanced, u-shaped timing trajectory is probable with a period in the beginning characterized by both cuts and fulfillment of expansionary pledges, followed by a period of cutbacks, and finally an expansive phase toward the end of a mandate. We test this argument on a new original dataset of legislative changes in five European countries -Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, and Germanyduring the last four decades.

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Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

Cited by 4 publications

References 66 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemics on the Development of Health Risk Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemics on the Development of Health Risk Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

Is there a ‘German school’ of comparative politics? An institutional perspective

How governments strategically time welfare state reform legislation: empirical evidence from five European countries

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