Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy and authority in times of Covid-19: The case of Belgian PM Wilmès

Kornblit, Irit

doi:10.4000/aad.6403

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“…One possible reason might be that legitimacy, by its nature, represents an interdisciplinary, multidimensional concept, and as far as we know, there is no standardized instrument to measure legitimacy perceptions across diverse contexts. The few articles that explore the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic regulations tend to focus on specific cases, most often on communications regarding timeliness, consistency, and appeals to solidarity (Bélanger & Lavenex, 2021; Kornblit, 2022). However, to our knowledge, more comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international comparisons of perceived legitimacy are still missing.…”

Section: The Legitimacy Of Government Measuresmentioning

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly developed seven-item scale that inquired whether governmental regulations were perceived as fair, justified, and based on science and whether the government considered citizens’ needs and the interests of their country, etc. The analysis was done within the structural equation modeling framework. Scalar measurement invariance was successfully established between the studied countries, and a subsequent latent means comparison supported the hypothesis that German respondents would report higher legitimacy of the governmental antipandemic regulations than respondents from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Additionally, as expected, the participants from the new German Länder (former East Germany) also manifested a consistent tendency to view governmental regulations as less legitimate than their Western fellow citizens. The results are discussed in terms of normative factors (i.e., the qualities of the authority which adopted the antipandemic measures, the qualities of the procedure through which these measures were adopted, and the qualities of the measures themselves), psycho-socio-cultural factors (e.g., postcommunist syndrome), and the influence of demographic variables.

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Section: The Legitimacy Of Government Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Handling protracted crises: Communication challenges, constraints and opportunities

Ihlen,

Kjeldsen,

Offerdal

2024

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Recent research on crisis communication has focused on the challenges of complex and protracted crises. In this essay, it is argued that such crises must be handled communicatively by putting the communication challenges, constraints and opportunities at the centre. To this end, the combination of the notions of the rhetorical situation and kairos is suggested as a keystone that provides a bottom‐up, context‐sensitive approach needed to cope with the fluid and changing situations of such crisis. Importantly, the life cycle of a protracted crisis can not only be understood in terms of physical factors (e.g., infection rates in a pandemic) but is also formed through the public's perceptions and the communicative choices of crisis communicators calling for action to mitigate or end a crisis. The rhetorical situation and kairos highlight the importance of spatial temporality, the uniqueness of the situations and the constitutive dimension of communication in a crisis. This implies the identification of the opportune moments to present a response and recognising the important ‘spaces’ between typical crisis situations.

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Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy and authority in times of Covid-19: The case of Belgian PM Wilmès

Cited by 2 publications

References 21 publications

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Handling protracted crises: Communication challenges, constraints and opportunities

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