Explaining Media Coverage of Constitutional Court Decisions in Germany: The Role of Case Characteristics

Meyer, Philipp

doi:10.1080/10584609.2020.1784329

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“…These aspects have motivated constitutional assemblies to adapt or mirror the institutional design of the German court when establishing judicial review, as it was shown for the newly established courts in post-communist countries (Hönnige 2007 ; Holtz-Bacha 2017 ) as well as for judiciaries in Latin America (Navia and Ríos-Figueroa 2005 ). Finally, the FCC’s public relations approach shares central aspects with several other highest courts’ communication strategies worldwide (Davis and Taras 2017 ; Meyer 2020 , 2021 a, b).…”

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“…nige 2007; Holtz-Bacha 2017) as well as for judiciaries in Latin America (Navia and Ríos-Figueroa 2005). Finally, the FCC's public relations approach shares central aspects with several other highest courts' communication strategies worldwide (Davis and Taras 2017;Meyer 2020Meyer , 2021a. Second, the studies by Mak (2013), Meierheinrich (2009), and Davies (2020) highlight the importance of the legal tradition to understand transnational judicial communication.…”

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Judicial diplomacy of the German Federal Constitutional Court: bilateral court meetings as a novel data source to assess transnational communication of constitutional courts

Meyer

2021

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Judicial diplomacy describes the courts’ efforts to promote liberal democracy and protect their institutional authority. Bilateral court meetings are essential for judicial diplomacy, encompassing jurisprudential (e.g., discussion of case law) and aims of strategic (e.g., maximising influence). This study presents a novel approach to assess such meetings. It analyses the German Federal Constitutional Court meeting reports between 1998–2019, using content and semantic network analysis. The content analysis shows that court meetings focus on jurisprudential aspects; however, strategic considerations also play a role in discussions with interlocutors from emerging democracies. These findings are substantiated by the semantic network analysis, which discloses that recent case law, Europeanisation, and globalisation are the main issues discussed. Hence, this study presents an analysis of a novel data source. Further, it contributes to judicial politics research as transnational court meetings could be a missing link to understand legal citation networks.

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Judicial diplomacy of the German Federal Constitutional Court: bilateral court meetings as a novel data source to assess transnational communication of constitutional courts

Meyer

2021

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“…Various studies use a binary measure for whether a certain event was covered in the printed media. For example, Meyer (2021) seeks to explain media coverage of a constitutional court decision in Germany and looks at whether a decision by the court was covered in at least one printed newspaper. 9 This article also focuses on printed newspapers.…”

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If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception

Makridis,

Maschmeyer,

Smeets

2024

Journal of Peace Research

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What determines media coverage on cyber conflict (CC)? Media bias fostering misperception is a well-established problem in conflict reporting. Because of the secrecy and complexity surrounding cyber operations (COs), where most data moreover come from marketing publications by private sector firms, this problem is likely to be especially pronounced in reporting on cyber threats. Because media reporting shapes public perception, such bias can shape conflict dynamics and outcomes with potentially destabilizing consequences. Yet little research has examined media bias systematically. This study connects existing literature on media reporting bias with the CC literature to formulate four theoretical explanations for variation in reporting on COs based on four corresponding characteristics of a CO. We introduce a new dataset of COs reporting by the private sector, which we call the Cyber Conflict Media Coverage Dataset, and media reporting on each of these operations. Consequently, we conduct a statistical analysis to identify which of these characteristics correlate with reporting quantity. This analysis shows that the use of novel techniques, specifically zero-day exploits, is a highly significant predictor of coverage quantity. Operations targeting the military or financial sector generate less coverage. We also find that cyber effect operations tend to receive more coverage compared to espionage, but this result is not statistically significant. Nonetheless, the predictive models explain limited variation in news coverage. These findings indicate that COs are treated differently in the media than other forms of conflict, and help explain persistent threat perception among the public despite the absence of catastrophic cyberattacks.

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“…In this, we follow the standard procedure of computational text analysis proposed in several studies (e.g., Grimmer andStewart 2013, Welbers et al 2017). Additionally, we rely on text analysis methods that are found suitable and are widely used in computational social science (e.g., Welbers et al 2016;Meyer 2020Meyer , 2021.…”

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Who’s Cheating? Mining Patterns of Collusion from Text and Events in Online Exams

Cleophas

Hönnige²,

Meisel

et al. 2023

INFORMS Transactions on Education

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As the COVID-19 pandemic motivated a shift to virtual teaching, exams have increasingly moved online too. Detecting cheating through collusion is not easy when tech-savvy students take online exams at home and on their own devices. Such online at-home exams may tempt students to collude and share materials and answers. However, online exams’ digital output also enables computer-aided detection of collusion patterns. This paper presents two simple data-driven techniques to analyze exam event logs and essay-form answers. Based on examples from exams in social sciences, we show that such analyses can reveal patterns of student collusion. We suggest using these patterns to quantify the degree of collusion. Finally, we summarize a set of lessons learned about designing and analyzing online exams.

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Explaining Media Coverage of Constitutional Court Decisions in Germany: The Role of Case Characteristics

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Judicial diplomacy of the German Federal Constitutional Court: bilateral court meetings as a novel data source to assess transnational communication of constitutional courts

Judicial diplomacy of the German Federal Constitutional Court: bilateral court meetings as a novel data source to assess transnational communication of constitutional courts

If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception

Who’s Cheating? Mining Patterns of Collusion from Text and Events in Online Exams

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