Debating Responsibility on the Eurozone Crisis in Traditional Media Newspaper Reporting in Greece and Germany Under a Social Media Lens

Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz; Scholl, Franziska; Kousis, Maria; Κανελλόπουλος, Κώστας; Loukakis, Angelos

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5_12

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“…This would mean that respondents might not gain the necessary information for functional responsibility attributions. However, our additional manual coding of a subset of the content data does not support this idea as the news items include more references to functional than causal responsibility of the EU (see also Roose et al 2017). Rather, it may be that the information about functional responsibility stay less in the minds of the respondents than the causal blaming of the EU.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…However, causal responsibility is more commonly studied and, in the context of the EU, often appears in the form of 'blaming Europe' for undesired developments (e.g. Hobolt and Tilley 2014, but see Roose et al 2017). Following the increase of EU decision-making power across policy areas, people may be right to assign causal responsibility to the EU, at least to some extent.…”

Section: The Functional Aspect Of Policy Responsibility Attributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meltzer et al 2020). The growing contestation of EU politics may have further increased the news value of EU-related news coverage (Roose et al 2017). Second, especially in the context of low incentives to individually seek complicated and conflicting information about responsibility attributions in multilevel systems (Cutler 2004), the media may provide an easy way out.…”

Section: Theoretical Effect Of Media Exposure On Responsibility Attrimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there is some research examining causal responsibility in the sense of 'blaming Europe' for undesired outcomes (e.g. Hobolt and Tilley 2014), the functional aspect of policy responsibility has received almost no attention in the EU context (but see Roose et al 2017). This is surprising as functional responsibility represents a necessary condition for causal responsibility -that is, without being in charge of a policy, a certain (government) level theoretically cannot be blamed for negative outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

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Brosius

Vreese

2021

Journal of European Integration

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In the EU multilevel structure, citizens differ in perceptions of who is responsible for policies and their outcomes. Policy responsibility consists of two concepts, functional and causal responsibility. While the latter has been studied in the context of 'blaming Europe' for negative outcomes, the necessary condition of functional responsibility has received only scant attention. The media plays a crucial role in providing citizens with information for attributing causal responsibility, but may be even more important for attributing functional responsibility. We test this for the case of the Netherlands for four policy areas: Immigration, social welfare, economy, and terrorism. Linking survey data to automated media content data, we predict the effect of exposure to policy-related information on the European level on policy-level attribution. Although the results show both differences in citizens' functional responsibility attributions and EU-related media coverage across policy areas, we find no effect from media consumption on responsibility attributions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: The Functional Aspect Of Policy Responsibility Attributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Effect Of Media Exposure On Responsibility Attrimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Goldberg

Brosius

Vreese

2021

Journal of European Integration

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“…We will return to that later. Further relevant literature that has been developed is that of blame attribution by the media during the crisis (Capelos and Exadaktylos, ; Roose et al ., ; Von Scheve, Zink and Ismer, ). Although the focus of this research is sociological and is interested in the emotions of blame attribution, it also shows that, in the case of Greece, blame attribution in the media has been directed towards the domestic political system more than towards external actors.…”

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Analysing Crisis Parliamentary Discourse in Greece: Whom Should We Blame?

Ladi

Tsagkroni

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article analyses differences in the varieties of political rhetoric on structuring and legitimizing argumentation and strategies during periods of economic and political crisis. Driven by developments in theory about blame‐shifting and the exogenization of the causes of crisis as well as employing advanced techniques of analysis, it focuses on the parliamentary bailout debates in Greece during the crisis period (2009–2015). By means of computer‐assisted content analysis it analyses the content of arguments on blame‐shifting. It shows that blame‐shifting is much more complex that just blaming the external enemy and often takes the form of historical blame‐shifting, turning the blame onto previous governments. It reveals that party leaders often use a much more polemic discourse than members of parliament. Finally, it shows that blame‐shifting diminishes once a party comes to power, following arguments on representative versus responsible government.

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Nicht nur wehrlose Sündenböcke! Schuldvermeidungsstrategien internationaler Organisationen

Heinkelmann-Wild

Zangl

2020

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Zusammenfassung Wie reagieren internationale Organisationen (IOs) auf Schuldzuweisungen ihrer Mitgliedstaaten? Oftmals werden in der Forschung IOs im Falle von gescheiterten Politiken als gute Sündenböcke für die Schuldzuweisungen ihrer Mitgliedstaaten gesehen, weil sie sich kaum zu Wehr setzen müssen, können oder wollen. Demgegenüber argumentieren wir, dass IO-RepräsentantInnen versuchen, IOs in der Öffentlichkeit nicht als Schuldige für gescheiterte Politiken dastehen zu lassen. IOs sind deshalb keine passiven "blame taker", sondern aktive "blame avoider". In manchen Fällen sind sie zwar bereit, die Schuldzuweisungen ihrer Mitgliedstaaten zu ignorieren, doch in anderen Fällen versuchen sie ihre Verantwortung zu verschleiern oder sogar die Mitgliedstaaten zu attackieren. Um dies zu erklären, entwickeln wir eine Theorie der Schuldvermeidung von IOs, gemäß derer die Autorität einer IO bestimmt, welche Schuldvermeidungsstrategie ihre RepräsentantInnen einschlagen. Je nachdem, ob eine IO im betreffenden Politikfeld Autorität intergouvernemental, supranational oder hybrid ausübt, wird sie auf Schuldzuweisungen ihrer Mitgliedstaaten durch Strategien des Ignorierens, Verschleierns oder Attackierens reagieren. Wir demonstrieren die Plausibilität unserer Theorie mithilfe einer Medieninhaltsanalyse der Verantwortungsattributionen der Europäischen Kommission für drei umstrittene EU-Migrationspolitiken. Wir tragen damit zum besseren Verständnis der öffentlichen Schuldvermeidungsstrategien von IOs bei.

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Debating Responsibility on the Eurozone Crisis in Traditional Media Newspaper Reporting in Greece and Germany Under a Social Media Lens

Cited by 6 publications

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Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Analysing Crisis Parliamentary Discourse in Greece: Whom Should We Blame?

Nicht nur wehrlose Sündenböcke! Schuldvermeidungsstrategien internationaler Organisationen

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