Framing Solidarity in the Euro Crisis: A Comparison of the German and Irish Media Discourse

Wallaschek, Stefan

doi:10.1080/13563467.2019.1586864

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“…The process of selection and salience is crucial to understanding media coverage of certain issues and is used as a heuristic to grasp the meaning-making process in texts. Frames structure public debate by selecting and highlighting certain aspects of those debates, influencing how political and societal problems are perceived, and thus potentially mobilizing the public (Entman, 2007;Snow, 2004;Wallaschek, 2020). As De Vreese (2005, p. 52) notes, "frames may contribute to shaping social level processes such as political socialization, decision-making, and collective actions".…”

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Legitimate Wealth? How Wealthy Business Owners are Portrayed in the Press

Waitkus

Wallaschek

2022

Soc Just Res

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Germany has one of the highest levels of wealth concentration of any Western capitalist country. Research on the legitimization of economic inequality highlights that wealth elites tend to stress meritocratic arguments for legitimizing elite positions and wealth accumulation. However, whether this is also the case for wealthy business owners and how the media tends to portray those remains largely unknown. Drawing on a unique sample of 899 press articles from eight different media outlets between 2014 and 2018, we find a rather generous media debate. Based on descriptive evidence and a latent class analysis, we identify six latent frames illustrating how wealthy business owners are portrayed in the press. We show that the sources of wealth (inheritance, investment, entrepreneurship) are often used to highlight these owners’ deep economic relevance to the German economy, while the use of wealth is predominantly framed as a mean for profit-seeking. For wealthy business owners, moral evaluation of personal conduct is less present in the media and, when it is present, is rarely negative. Our study is the first analysis of press coverage of the wealthiest German business owners indicating a legitimizing media debate of high wealth concentration in an advanced capitalist society.

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Legitimate Wealth? How Wealthy Business Owners are Portrayed in the Press

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Wallaschek

2022

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“…1160-1161. Fiscally conservative countries as Germany had seen strict conditionality as a mandatory requirement for their financial participation in the EFSF and the ESM, establishing a strong link between solidarity and conditionality (Matthijs, 2016, p. 377;Wallaschek, 2020). In economic theory, policy conditionality of financial aid during economic crises is needed to avoid moral hazard (Jeanne et al, 2008;Jeanne & Zettelmeyer, 2001).…”

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Solidarity without Conditionality. Comparing the EU Covid-19 Safety Nets SURE, Pandemic Crisis Support, and European Guarantee Fund

Lindner

2022

SSRN Journal

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This article compares the three initial safety nets spanned by the European Union in response to the Covid-19 crisis: SURE, the Pandemic Crisis Support, and the European Guarantee Fund.It compares their design regarding scope, generosity, target groups, implementation, the types of solidarity and conditionality, and asks how they reflect on core-periphery relations in the EU. The article finds that the most important factor in all three instruments is risk-sharing between member states, even though SURE and the EGF display elements of fiscal solidarity.Finally, the article shows that Euro crisis countries from the South are the main recipients of financial aid, while Central and East European countries receive significantly less assistance and core countries in the North and West have no need for them.

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“…Here, solidarity can refer to the collective action of social movements (della Porta, 2018). Increasingly more studies also investigate solidarity from a discursive perspective arguing that the meaning of the term is subject to constant reconstruction in public discourses (Brändle, Eisele, & Trenz, 2019;Wallaschek, 2020aWallaschek, , 2020bWallaschek, Starke, & Brüning, 2020).…”

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Solidarity in the European Union

Starke

2021

European Solidarity Under Scrutiny

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Drawing on the existing literature, the following chapter is dedicated to deriving a sound theoretical concept of individual European solidarity. This concept aims at capturing the solidarity of individual citizens in the EU. On one hand, this concept should model European solidarity in the European debt crisis, but on the other hand, it should also be applicable to other relevant problems that call for European solidarity. Therefore, I first review the theoretical literature on solidarity and evaluate the most important concepts in terms of their applicability to the European context. Second, I use these insights to define three key requirements for the concept of European solidarity. Third, I deduce a norm-based theoretical concept of individual European solidarity that meets the three predefined requirements. Fourth, I look at the drivers of solidarity to determine how European solidarity can be explained and ultimately strengthened. Existing Concepts of (European) SolidarityA brief look at the historical traditions of the term solidarity helps to understand the variety of existing concepts of (European) solidarity. Starting in ancient Greece, solidarity described some sort of friendship among the population of the polis. It referred to feelings of sympathy

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Framing Solidarity in the Euro Crisis: A Comparison of the German and Irish Media Discourse

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Legitimate Wealth? How Wealthy Business Owners are Portrayed in the Press

Legitimate Wealth? How Wealthy Business Owners are Portrayed in the Press

Solidarity without Conditionality. Comparing the EU Covid-19 Safety Nets SURE, Pandemic Crisis Support, and European Guarantee Fund

Solidarity in the European Union

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