Strategies of Contestation: International Law, Domestic Audiences, and Image Management

Morse, Julia C.; Pratt, Tyler

doi:10.1086/719418

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“…64. Morse andPratt 2022. drowned out in the pages of the newspaper by opposing groups, yet that voice may still gain traction gradually. Alternatively, initial coverage frames may prove sticky, and IO actions could harden opinions across different segments of the public.…”

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How International Organizations Change National Media Coverage of Human Rights

Chaudoin

2022

Int Org

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How do international organizations change the discussion of human rights violations, and how does their message reach the broader public? I show that national media is a key conduit. I analyze media coverage from the Philippines to show that the content of media coverage of the “war on drugs” changed after a major decision by the International Criminal Court. The ICC increased the proportion of media coverage focusing on human rights by triggering contestation between pro- and anti-human-rights actors. Original survey experimental evidence shows that this coverage shift blunts the effect of ICC actions on support for the war on drugs. This highlights an indirect role for international organizations in shaping media coverage and helps explain why they have struggled to win public opinion battles. Though their actions amplify the voices of human rights supporters, media coverage concurrently amplifies the voices of their opponents, which can crowd out coverage that might otherwise have decreased support for problematic polices.

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How International Organizations Change National Media Coverage of Human Rights

Chaudoin

2022

Int Org

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“…21 We hope the next steps in this research program are to explore questions exactly like this, akin to secondgeneration work on audience costs exploring the precise conditions under which these costs are actually borne (or evaded) by leaders (Levendusky and Horowitz 2012). Notably, this growing literature documents the limits of leaders' ability to fully evade accountability (Morse and Pratt 2021;Robison 2021). Analogous future work on status might consider whether leaders' ability to reframe status loss events differs from other contexts.…”

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International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders

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Renshon

2021

American J Political Sci

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We study how international status concerns among the public affect support for political leaders, arguing that because status competition is pervasive in social life and because international status competition entails high-profile displays of scientific or martial savvy, the public is likely to be attuned to the status implications of foreign policy crises. We test this argument in seven survey experiments across four issue areas. The results show that adverse outcomes in world affairs increase expectations of international status loss and, through that mechanism, reduce presidential approval. Analysis of open-ended survey responses reveals that the public views international status in much the same way that international relations scholars do: it is multidimensional, positional, and instrumentally useful. Taken together, our results suggest that the public's international status concerns have significant implications for leaders and offer new insight into how the public parses the implications of events abroad.

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The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion

Ferry,

O’Brien-Udry

2024

Rev Int Organ

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States use symbolic gestures to increase their international status, or relative po- sition, within the international community. But how do the status-seeking actions of one state affect the status of others? The common assumption is that improvements in one state’s status lead to the relative deterioration of other states’ status by compari- son. In this paper, we focus on status’ social qualities to delineate multiple theoretical pathways through which one state’s status can change – or not – relative to another. Status is not conferred in a vacuum and the consequences of status-altering activities may spill over to third parties. We field an original survey and reanalyze several exist- ing studies to understand how relative status operates in the case of foreign aid; these surveys reveal novel empirical patterns about the circumstances under which a state’s status will update relative to other states. We extend the analysis to examine who updates perceptions, what actions change status, and for whom status changes. Our findings suggest that status-enhancing actions may be successful at augmenting status amongst peers, but ultimately unsuccessful at changing global hierarchies.

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Strategies of Contestation: International Law, Domestic Audiences, and Image Management

Cited by 10 publications

References 60 publications

How International Organizations Change National Media Coverage of Human Rights

How International Organizations Change National Media Coverage of Human Rights

International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders

The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion

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