Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage : A Case of the Czech
Coal Policy

J 2020

Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage : A Case of the Czech Coal Policy

ČERNÝ, Ondřej a Petr OCELÍK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage : A Case of the Czech Coal Policy

Autoři

ČERNÝ, Ondřej (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Petr OCELÍK (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Politics and Governance, Lisbon, Cogitatio Press, 2020, 2183-2463

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Portugalsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

article - open access

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.061

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115745

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2610

UT WoS

000537467600008

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85089122081

Klíčová slova anglicky

coal; Czech Republic; energy; discourse network analysis; media discourse; newspapers; public policy

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 3. 2021 09:58, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Transitioning to a decarbonized economy is a crucial part of climate change mitigation, with the phasing-out of coal, as the most significant source of carbon dioxide emissions, being the centerpiece of this effort. In the European context, the increasing pressures exerted especially on the basis of the European Union’s energy and climate policy, coupled with the inherent uncertainty of the transition process, encourage various struggles among the involved policy actors over the setting of specific transition pathways. One site of such contestation is media discourse, which may facilitate or limit policy change through agenda-setting, framing, and other processes. Importantly, discursive struggles also include industry incumbents, who have a vested interest in preserving the existing sociotechnical regime. This article focuses on the position of incumbents in terms of their relationship with governing political parties and the discursive strategies they employ. It explores the policy debate on coal mining expansion which took place in 2015 in the Czech Republic, a post-communist country with a coal-dependent economy, a skeptical position on energy transition, and a powerful energy industry. The research employs discourse network analysis to examine a corpus compiled from daily newspapers and applies block modeling techniques to analyze patterns of relationships within and between actor groups. The results show that incumbents successfully prevented policy change in the direction of rapid coal phase-out by exploiting discourse alignment with governing parties and efficiently employing discursive strategies based primarily on securitization of socioeconomic issues.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1044/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Přiložené soubory

PaG_8_2__-_Incumbents__Strategies_in_Media_Coverage_A_Case_of_the_Czech_Coal_Policy.pdf

Citovat

ČERNÝ, Ondřej a Petr OCELÍK. Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage : A Case of the Czech Coal Policy. Politics and Governance. Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, 2020, roč. 8, č. 2, s. 272-285. ISSN 2183-2463. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2610.

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ČERNÝ, Ondřej a Petr OCELÍK. Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage : A Case of the Czech Coal Policy. \textit{Politics and Governance}. Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, 2020, roč.~8, č.~2, s.~272-285. ISSN~2183-2463. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2610.

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