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Incumbents’ Strategies in Media Coverage: A Case of the Czech Coal Policy
- Source :
- Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Vol 8, Iss 2, Pp 272-285 (2020), Policy Debates and Discourse Network Analysis
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2020.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- media discourse
Sociotechnical system
Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science
02 engineering and technology
7. Clean energy
ddc:070
spezielle Ressortpolitik
public policy
050602 political science & public administration
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
lcsh:JA1-92
Political science
network analysis
Berichterstattung
Czech Republic
media_common
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
agenda setting function
coal
Klimawandel
reporting
Energiepolitik
05 social sciences
climate policy
energy
discourse network analysis
newspapers
0506 political science
climate change
Kohle
Securitization
czech republic
Politikwissenschaft
020209 energy
Netzwerkanalyse
Public policy
Diskursanalyse
Energy transition
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Politics
lcsh:Political science (General)
Zeitung
media_common.cataloged_instance
European union
discourse analysis
News media, journalism, publishing
Tschechische Republik
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Klimapolitik
Framing (social sciences)
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
ddc:320
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Economic system
newspaper
energy policy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21832463
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Politics and Governance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e93261a86fa83f5a8df50aa23596827