A "Site of Memory" or an Electoral Campaign? A Content Analysis of Croatian Media Prior to the 2015 Parliamentary Elections

Mustapić, Marko; Balabanić, Ivan

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“…Ekonomske performanse JLS, mjerene indeksom razvijenosti, imaju mnogo manji utjecaj na pobjednika izbora te ih u pravilu više cijene glasači SDP-a. Navedeni rezultat suprotan je našim očekivanjima, ali je u skladu s istraživanjima provedenima u Hrvatskoj (Henjak, 2007;Glaurdić i Vuković, 2016;Mustapić i Balabanić, 2018). Ekonomska varijabla drugoga tipa, ona koja mjeri transparentnost proračuna, također je veoma signifikantna i upućuje na to da je veća vjerojatnost da će HDZ pobijediti u JLS-u gdje je transparentnost proračuna manja.…”

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Economics or History: Preferences of Croatian Voters in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Zaninović

Mužić

2022

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of election victory in the Republic of Croatia. The main hypothesis of the paper is that in the Republic of Croatia the events of the 1990s, i.e., the Homeland War, had a stronger impact on the winners of the parliamentary elections in terms of the economic performance of the local self-government units (LSGs). Due to the availability of data, we focus on the 2016 parliamentary elections, and we model the victory of the two leading parties in Croatia – the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – at the level of LSG. We develop a logistic regression model with the variable "election victory" at the LSG level as a dependent variable explained by the following variables: economic development at the LSG level, Homeland War covered LSGs, transparency of LSG budgets, election turnout, and government budget support to the LSGs. The results show that certain commonly accepted opinions, such as that voters in more economically developed LSGs vote more for the SDP on average, and that voters in war-affected LSGs vote more for the HDZ on average, have empirical confirmation.

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Economics or History: Preferences of Croatian Voters in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Zaninović

Mužić

2022

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“…Šuligoj and Kennell, 2021; Volcic et al, 2014; Wise, 2017; Wise and Mulec, 2014) discussed how newspaper articles and/or official tourism websites construct the (re)created meanings and images of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Western Balkans. Moreover, cases of Israel (Vinitzky-Seroussi, 2002), Italy (Cimino, 2017), post-Yugoslavian countries (Banjeglav, 2019; Mustapić and Balabanić, 2018; Šuligoj, 2019; Šuligoj and Kennell, 2021) and New Zealand (McConville et al, 2017) show how the memory of historic events related to national identity are interesting topics for the national media. The media thus prevent social or historical amnesia (Lury, 2004).…”

Section: Media Commemorations and Dark Tourismmentioning

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Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia

Šuligoj

Rudan

2022

Memory Studies

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This study contributes to literature concerning memory and dark tourism by providing empirical evidence about the link between commemorations and the news media in a post-conflict and tourism-dependent Croatia, as well as the specific media-constructed social reality. The main focus lies on the types and media-based descriptions of commemorations. A total of 371 news articles were collected and then reviewed using a set of items grounded in theory. In addition to content, a chi-square automatic interaction detection analysis was also employed. Four commemoration types with significant peculiarities (site category, young and senior generation of visitors, and mass visits) are observed in a two-branch model. Other general characteristics of commemorations were also identified. The dominant commemoration type in Croatia are ‘memorial services’, (massively) visited by seniors. Young people rarely attend commemorations. If so, they mostly attend ‘parades, marches, processions’ taking place at authentic sites. The findings provide theoretical and practical implications for stakeholders.

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“…Politics of memory are a reflection of political development and are often a revitalised ideology and thus related to political conflicts; memory in this case is a concept of (political) culture (Confino, 1997(Confino, , p. 1393Jerše, 2017, p. 249;Mustapić & Balabanić, 2018). The dominant narrative, as defined by Misztal (2003, p. 160) and Mustapić and Balabanić (2018), is a memory of the political elites with whom they shape the desired image of the past (as presented in the preceding paragraphs). This is in line with Ahonen's (2012, p. 23) 'public memory, ' which is described by the author as a politically canonised story of the past, an official history, emphasising the non-academic nature of these presentations.…”

Section: Linking Memory With Culture and Politicsmentioning

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“…Negative deviations, about which Confino writes above, are not difficult to find: politicisation (or even political abuse) of memory is nowadays a common occurrence in the post-socialist states. Mustapić and Balabanić (2018) note that the 2015 parliamentary campaign in Croatia has changed into a 'site of mem-ory' with the focus on recent history-related issues; the media were then a necessary medium for the transmission of these messages to the people. Thus, the media (journalism) also re-and co-constructs memory with regard to discrete events (and everyday life) as well as across time and place; furthermore, they link them to memory studies and historiography (Edy, 1999;Kitch, 2002;.…”

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confidence: 99%

Dark Shades of Istria

Šuligoj

2022

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Izid monografije sta finančno podprli Javna agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije iz sredstev državnega proračuna iz naslova razpisa za sofinanciranje znanstvenih monografij in Univerza na Primorskem iz sredstev internega raziskovalnega projekta »Inovativni trajnostni turizem«. Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (ci p) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani c obi ss.si -i d 145706243 i sbn 978-961-293-211-4 (pdf) isbn 978-961-293-212-1 (html) IntroductionGood friend for Jesus sake forbeare, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones.William Shakespeare EpitaphDeath and human tragedy are traditionally very interesting to peoplesee Dunkley et al. (2007), Stone and Sharpley (2008), and Šuligoj (2016).They are not interesting only to ordinary people, scholars, or the media, but also to a number of world-class and less recognisable artists whose creations attract the international public. In his series Recettes d'immortalité, Salvador Dalí, for example, includes elements that symbolise death or suffering, e.g.

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A "Site of Memory" or an Electoral Campaign? A Content Analysis of Croatian Media Prior to the 2015 Parliamentary Elections

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Economics or History: Preferences of Croatian Voters in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Economics or History: Preferences of Croatian Voters in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia

Dark Shades of Istria

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