Media Bias Effects on Voters in Pakistan

Ali, Arshad; Rahman, Syed Inam ur

doi:10.31703/grr.2019(iv-iv).50

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“…Pakistan's expenditure per soldier is 5,900 dollars annually, about one-tenth of South Africa's (53,500 dollars) and below the annual UN reimbursement (17,136 dollars). The profiles of these countries as UN troop contributors mention economic incentives in Pakistan's case but not in South Africa's case (Malik, 2014;Lotze & de Coning, 2015), a possible reason why Pakistan deploys its peacekeepers about twice as fast as South Africa. 10 Proposition 1995/96:113 and parliamentary debate 15 December 1995 (96: 39).…”

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Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response

Lundgren

Oksamytna

Coleman

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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International organizations’ ability to respond promptly to crises is essential for their effectiveness and legitimacy. For the UN, which sends peacekeeping missions to some of the world’s most difficult conflicts, responsiveness can save lives and protect peace. Very often, however, the UN fails to deploy peacekeepers rapidly. Lacking a standing army, the UN relies on its member states to provide troops for peacekeeping operations. In the first systematic study of the determinants of deployment speed in UN peacekeeping, we theorize that this speed hinges on the incentives, capabilities, and constraints of the troop-contributing countries. Using duration modeling, we analyze novel data on the deployment speed in 28 peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 2015. Our data reveal three principal findings: All else equal, countries that depend on peacekeeping reimbursements by the UN, are exposed to negative externalities from a particular conflict, or lack parliamentary constraints on sending troops abroad deploy more swiftly than others. By underlining how member state characteristics affect aggregate outcomes, these findings have important implications for research on the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping, troop contribution dynamics, and rapid deployment initiatives.

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Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response

Lundgren

Oksamytna

Coleman

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Media frames and shapes the political agenda that, in turn, greatly affects the politics and the voter's political affiliations. A study conducted in Pakistan found that the media had a significant impact on the voters' political inclination, and that impact was due to the framing of news by the media as it can play up or play down any news affecting its news value tremendously (Ali & Rahman, 2019). Newspaper editorials are an important part of a newspaper as they represent the newspaper's policy and its political affiliation.…”

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“…In Pakistan, the media faces several allegations of political bias, and it has been evident in the past that media succumbed to external pressures and was unable to withhold its objectivity (Rehmat 2018). For the smooth working of a democracy, we need independent media as media plays a crucial role in forming the voting behavior of the citizens; therefore, media bias in reporting will bring with it severe repercussions (Ali & Rahman, 2019).…”

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Comparative Analysis of the Portrayal of PPPP, PML (N) and PTI in Pakistani Print Media during Democratic Tenure of PPPP

Toor

2020

GPR

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Media influence on politics has always been a debatable subject due to its immense potential. Media is regarded as the fourth estate of the nation, and the role of traditional media in the political arena is indispensable. The agenda-setting by newspapers plays a pivotal part in forming the image of a political party. This study is an exertion to examine the leading English and Urdu newspapers (Dawn, The News, Jang, Nawa-i-Waqt) of Pakistan to find out the portrayal given to PPPP, PML-N and PTI during PPPP's five-year (2008- 2013) regime. By employing the content analysis method, findings indicate that PML-N was given the maximum editorial and news coverage regarding the important national issues, whereas PPPP got the second most frequent coverage. PPPP was presented in an unfavourable manner, and PLM-N was given the least negative reportage. Results of the study revealed that English and Urdu newspapers adopted a supportive stance towards PML (N).

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“…Thus, this leads to a social problem as the events are reported subjectively to serve a hidden ideology. Ali & Rahman (2019) defined bias as when the news reporters write news articles in a prejudiced or partial way in order to assist a specific political party. In this paper, the researcher defines 'bias' as A tendency and/or prejudice of a person or group 'X' against a person or group 'Y,' by focusing on or neglecting a particular area either by supporting or opposing it, due to power abuse, to achieve hidden ideology or interest.…”

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Ideology in Portraying the Israeli onslaught on Gaza in August 2022: A Transitivity Analysis of The Hindu and the Washington Post Reports

Abunahel

2023

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This critical discourse analysis (CDA) investigates how The Hindu and the Washington Post (WP) construct their online news in depicting the Israeli onslaught on Gaza in August 2022. Halliday’s transitivity system was adopted to explore the hidden ideologies and analyze the textual choice or words' features in the clauses of thirteen (13) news articles from The Hindu and nine (9) from WP. The study's findings indicate that the most dominant processes in both news media were the verbal and material processes. Within the verbal process, it was divided into three sides: Palestinian, Israel and neutral. The findings reveal that both media have common strategies to represent the Israeli and neutral verbal process, while the selected media share similarities and differences in representing the Palestinian verbal process. The findings through the material process suggest that both media show Israel as an actor more than as a goal. They tend to use processes ‘verbs’ that are associated with extreme violence and less violence with Israel, whereas Palestinian are associated with less violence process, but the process is supported with adjectives, adverbs and numbers to place it in extreme violence. The analysis is then followed by the revealed methods and techniques used by the selected media. Overall, both news media have hidden ideologies to construct their news articles. Based on these empirical evidences, (CDA) appears to play an essential part in understanding the language that is employed in media discourses.

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Media Bias Effects on Voters in Pakistan

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response

Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response

Comparative Analysis of the Portrayal of PPPP, PML (N) and PTI in Pakistani Print Media during Democratic Tenure of PPPP

Ideology in Portraying the Israeli onslaught on Gaza in August 2022: A Transitivity Analysis of The Hindu and the Washington Post Reports

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