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In a time of radical changes in both the political world and the communications environment, international relations processes are widely assumed to be moving beyond the interactions of national governments and depending more heavily on public opinion; with public opinion seen as depending more heavily on media coverage. However, as public opinion is less concerned with “hard facts” than with the ways collective identities are formed and related to other collectivities, an appropriate tool is needed for measuring attitudes towards foreign states for crucial constraints of policy-making, especially in cases of intergovernmental cooperation and conflict. The proposed methodological approach draws on both constructivist international relations theory and attribution theory in order to build a framework to examine group perceptions in international relations. While constructivist international relations theory insists that foreign policy is, at its most basic, a process of defining in-groups and out-groups in the modern state system, attribution theory is concerned with how people make explanations for their own and other people’s behaviour, and the sorts of bias that occur in this process. In an international relations context, in-group serving and out-group derogating attributions can be interpreted with regard to the widely researched “group-serving-bias”. Considering the importance of the transatlantic alliance and the differences that have occurred in recent times, the outlined approach is exemplified by an analysis of European press coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidential election. It examines the impact of press-government relationship on framing of U.S. policies (“indexing hypothesis”), controlled for elite consensus and editorial policy. It includes eight leading newspapers from France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. |
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International Relations, Attribution Theory, Group Perception, U.S. Presidential Elections, European Media |
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| Melischek, Gabriele. and Seethaler, Josef. "Media and International Relations: European Press Coverage of the 2004 U.S. Election" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France, Jul 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p256079_index.html> |
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| Melischek, G. and Seethaler, J. , 2008-07-09 "Media and International Relations: European Press Coverage of the 2004 U.S. Election" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p256079_index.html |
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Abstract: In a time of radical changes in both the political world and the communications environment, international relations processes are widely assumed to be moving beyond the interactions of national governments and depending more heavily on public opinion; with public opinion seen as depending more heavily on media coverage. However, as public opinion is less concerned with “hard facts” than with the ways collective identities are formed and related to other collectivities, an appropriate tool is needed for measuring attitudes towards foreign states for crucial constraints of policy-making, especially in cases of intergovernmental cooperation and conflict. The proposed methodological approach draws on both constructivist international relations theory and attribution theory in order to build a framework to examine group perceptions in international relations. While constructivist international relations theory insists that foreign policy is, at its most basic, a process of defining in-groups and out-groups in the modern state system, attribution theory is concerned with how people make explanations for their own and other people’s behaviour, and the sorts of bias that occur in this process. In an international relations context, in-group serving and out-group derogating attributions can be interpreted with regard to the widely researched “group-serving-bias”. Considering the importance of the transatlantic alliance and the differences that have occurred in recent times, the outlined approach is exemplified by an analysis of European press coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidential election. It examines the impact of press-government relationship on framing of U.S. policies (“indexing hypothesis”), controlled for elite consensus and editorial policy. It includes eight leading newspapers from France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. |
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| Media and International Relations: European Press Coverage of the 2004 U.S. Election Paper to be presented at the 31st Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology Session 5B: U.S. Election Paris July 9-12 2008 Gabriele Melischek and Josef Seethaler Austrian Academy of Sciences Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies gabriele.melischek@oeaw.ac.at josef.seethaler@oeaw.ac.at Please do not quote without the authors’ permission. Media and International Relations 2 Since the end of the Cold War both the political world |
| for both levels of analysis. For actor and issue salience newspaper stories were coded by nine trained coders (native speakers or graduate students with advanced foreign language skills); intercoder reliability tests were carried out in the training sessions. Based on Holsti’s (1969) formula agreement ranged between 92.5 and 95.1%. Identification and classification of attributions was undertaken by the authors. They initially agreed on more than 90% on the categorization of attributions. Disagreements were discussed; only in a few cases |
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