A reversal of fortune: blame games and framing contests after the 3/11 terrorist attacks in Madrid

Olmeda, José A.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511756122.003

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“…Again, the status quo player lost; the change advocate won. Aznar lost (while leading in the polls up to the day of the bombings), mostly because he could not convince the public that Basque separatists had perpetrated the bombings and consequently was open to charges of deliberately misleading the public as to the real-to him, politically inconvenient-culprit, namely, al-Qaeda (Olmeda 2008). …”

Section: Crisis Rhetoric and Framing Contests In The Media Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The opposition was very effective in dramatising the force of its counter-frame; and it was helped along by a trickle of information from the police investigations into the attacks, which began to point in the direction of Muslim extremists. Aznar persevered regardless and his party paid the price at an election a few days later (Olmeda 2008). Likewise, George W. Bush's initial business-as-usual frame with regard to the financial crisis began to crumble politically as the material realities of the crisis unfolded and lent credence to voices much more pessimistic than Bush's.…”

Section: Fast Versus Successful Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Hart¹,

Tindall²

2009

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Section: Crisis Rhetoric and Framing Contests In The Media Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fast Versus Successful Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Hart¹,

Tindall²

2009

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“…Word2Vec (Mikolov et al 2013) or GloVe (Pennington, Socher, and Manning 2014) can be used to pretrain word embeddings on larger external dataset. ELMo (Peters et al 2018) word vectors are internal states of a deep bidirectional language models, and can effectively capture the syntax and semantics of words. We conduct experiments on GloVe and ELMo, and investigate the effects of these pretrained word embeddings.…”

Section: Experimental Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Blames Whom in a Crisis? Detecting Blame Ties from News Articles Using Neural Networks

Liang

Nicol

Zhang

2019

AAAI

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Blame games tend to follow major disruptions, be they financial crises, natural disasters or terrorist attacks. To study how the blame game evolves and shapes the dominant crisis narratives is of great significance, as sense-making processes can affect regulatory outcomes, social hierarchies, and cultural norms. However, it takes tremendous time and efforts for social scientists to manually examine each relevant news article and extract the blame ties (A blames B). In this study, we define a new task, Blame Tie Extraction, and construct a new dataset related to the United States financial crisis (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. We build a Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network for contexts where the entities appear in and it learns to automatically extract such blame ties at the document level. Leveraging the large unsupervised model such as GloVe and ELMo, our best model achieves an F1 score of 70% on the test set for blame tie extraction, making it a useful tool for social scientists to extract blame ties more efficiently.

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“…The left-wing opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) easily managed to replace the official storyline with its own version, in which the bomb attacks were regarded a "punishment" by Al-Qaeda for military involvement in the Iraq war (even though the troops were sent on only a peacekeeping mission). After mass demonstrations with 11 million people (out of a population of 42 million) the PP lost the election (Olmeda, 2008).…”

Section: Quadrant B: Crisis As Exogenous Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contingency and Political Action: The Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises

Körösényi

Illés

Metz

2016

PaG

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Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreting crises. Our claim is that there is a third analytical possibility mainly neglected in recent literature that is even more voluntaristic than the constructivist approaches. In this scenario, there is no external shock; leaders do not only interpret, but also "invent" crises. To make our claim plausible, we build a conceptual-descriptive typology of the potential relationships between crisis situations and agency. The typology is founded on Kari Palonen's differentiation between Machiavellian and Weberian types of contingency, but uses his originally conceptual historical argument for analytical purposes. To underpin our theoretical argument, we present short illustrative examples to all three types of crisis scenarios (the structuralist, the constructivist, and the voluntarist one).

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A reversal of fortune: blame games and framing contests after the 3/11 terrorist attacks in Madrid

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Who Blames Whom in a Crisis? Detecting Blame Ties from News Articles Using Neural Networks

Contingency and Political Action: The Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises

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