Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis
Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception

J 2024

Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception

KLEINER, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception

Autoři

KLEINER, Jan

Vydání

Armed Forces & Society, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2024, 0095-327X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.700

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Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/24:00135037

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

defense budget cuts; public perception; COVID-19; Czech Army; case study; mixed-methods design; social media analysis

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 4. 12. 2023 13:01, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced militaries worldwide to join the fight. Numerous (e.g., British or Czech) armed forces seized the opportunity to propagate their domestic pandemic mitigation activities to improve their public image. However, defense budgets are usually cut first in times of crisis. Such cuts, or the mere threat of them, can have severe strategic and national security ramifications. This research, both exploratory and explanatory, investigates how military crisis-relief activities and their online propagation can muster public support against austerity cuts. It employs mixed-methods analyses of more than 160,000 posts and comments from the Czech Army's Facebook page case study from January 2011 to January 2021. The study concludes that the Army's propagation of information about its participation in pandemic mitigation induced positive feelings significantly more than the other content. Moreover, despite unpopular measures (e.g., lockdowns and policing), the Army's efforts mobilized online public opposition to the austerity cuts.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1502/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu VIII.

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu VIII.

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battling-defense-austerity-cuts-with-the-covid-19-crisis-response.pdf

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Citovat

KLEINER, Jan. Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception. Armed Forces & Society. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2024, roč. 50, č. 1, s. 202-223. ISSN 0095-327X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221114654.

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KLEINER, Jan. Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception. \textit{Armed Forces \&{} Society}. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2024, roč.~50, č.~1, s.~202-223. ISSN~0095-327X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221114654.

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