Representation of Women in Second-order Elections: The Czech Republic and Slovakia Compared

Kovář, Jan; Kovář, Kamil

doi:10.1080/15705854.2013.793533

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“…Third, besides the differences in public opinion towards the EU the two countries and their elites have adopted different paths and strategies within the EU, such as membership in the Eurozone, but also in relation to other EU issues (Kovář and Kovář, 2014). Fourth, available studies show that Czechia has an even more restrictive immigration policy than Slovakia, which may affect the Czech media portrayal of immigrants (Scipioni and Urso, 2017).…”

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A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis

Kovář

2019

International Communication Gazette

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A developing literature on the securitisation of immigration documents the prominence of security-based framing, but its prevalence has not been systematically established in Central and Eastern Europe through an analysis of the relative importance of various immigration-related frames. Using content analysis, this study tests the securitisation of the immigration thesis in the coverage of the refugee crisis between 2013 and 2016 in Czech and Slovak media ( N = 7,910), in particular focusing on frame variation over time, and on differences between quality and tabloid media. The results reveal that the security-threat frame is the dominant frame, while economic framing is significantly less frequent in regard to the topic. While both quality media and tabloids employ the security-threat frame often, it is significantly more prominent in tabloids. In sum, these results confirm the existence of a pre-eminent securitised interpretation of immigration in the region during the crisis.

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A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis

Kovář

2019

International Communication Gazette

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“…The selection of candidates furthermore hinges on parties' calculation of possible policy influences, which means that parties that expect to have a greater influence on the European level than on the national level prefer to place their more enticing candidates in European elections (Pemstein et al, 2015). In the same vain, media coverage of European elections can be best described as marginal in comparison with first‐order elections (Kovář, 2010; Kovář & Kovář, 2013a; Wilke & Reinemann, 2007). Furthermore, media coverage usually focuses on domestic rather than European topics (Belluati & Bobba, 2010).…”

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Are European Elections Second‐Order Elections for Everyone?

Bartels

2023

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Second‐order election (SOE) theory has been used to explain voting behaviour in European elections. Voters believe that less is at stake in some elections and some voters hence tend to cast a protest vote. However, most studies on the topic have focused on the demand side of SOEs – i.e. on the voters – and have ignored or only partially tackled the supply side – i.e. the strategic behaviour of parties – and excluded small and marginal parties (SMPs). However, SMPs may have greater incentive to seriously compete in SOEs. The 2019 European Parliament elections in Germany were particularly interesting to SMPs as there was no voting threshold, thereby increasing the chances of SMPs. To capture whether SMPs view European elections as first‐order elections and therefore expend more resources than parliamentary parties on these elections, I analysed campaign expenditures and manifestos. Results indicate that SMPs act within a rational actor framework, though not unequivocally.

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“…The validity of the theory in the context of post-socialist countries has been addressed by several authors, e.g. Linek et al (2007), Šaradín (2008), Havlík and Hoskovec (2009), Cabada (2010), Klíma and Outlý (2010), Kovář (2013), Kovář and Kovář (2014).…”

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Are the Czech or Slovak regions “closer to Europe”? Pro-Europeanness from a subnational perspective

Plešivčák¹

2020

Auc Geographica

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Based on the 2003-2019 electoral data, this article evaluates the level of pro-Europeanness in Czechia and Slovakia at the regional and sub-regional levels during and after their EU accession period. The TOPSIS multi-criteria evaluation method and cluster analysis were used to quantify the pro-European levels and to create the subsequent categories of territorial units. The results show support for the ideas of European integration primarily in large urban regions (Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Košice), territorial units with a higher concentration of ethnic minorities, larger scale agricultural activities (southwestern Slovakia), and a high degree of religiosity (northeastern Slovakia). The low level of pro-Europeanness was predominant in the less developed northwestern Czechia and parts of Moravia. In Slovakia, the Eurosceptic regions were mostly located in the northwest, where the values of statism, egalitarianism and nationalism have a strong tradition. This approach can be used to identify areas of weak support for the EU project at a spatially disaggregated level in other EU countries.

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Representation of Women in Second-order Elections: The Czech Republic and Slovakia Compared

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis

A security threat or an economic consequence? An analysis of the news framing of the European Union's refugee crisis

Are European Elections Second‐Order Elections for Everyone?

Are the Czech or Slovak regions “closer to Europe”? Pro-Europeanness from a subnational perspective

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