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Political Leaders in Daily Newspapers: Analysis of the 2016 Croatian Parliamentary Elections
- Source :
- Društvena istraživanja : časopis za opća društvena pitanja, Volume 27, Issue 3
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper analyses the daily newspaper reporting on key political leaders of the 2016 parliamentary elections, the first early parliamentary elections in Croatia directly caused by a breakup of the ruling coalition. The introduction to these surprise and short-notice elections, at which preferential voting was practiced for only the second time, was a short election campaign and a change in leadership of the biggest party (HDZ), which triggered the extensive use of personalisation in campaigns run by the biggest parties and their coalitions. This study examines how five leaders of the most prominent political parties were presented in the six most relevant Croatian daily newspapers during the official election campaign. The findings reveal that the leaders of the two biggest parties dominated media coverage, but also that the only new leader, HDZ's Andrej Plenković, had a very favourable treatment in all of the analysed daily newspapers. Results also showed political programmes and private lives of the leaders to be marginal topics within the analysed leaders' media coverage.<br />Rad analizira izvještavanje dnevnih novina o ključnim političkim vođama parlamentarnih izbora u Hrvatskoj 2016. godine, prvih prijevremenih parlamentarnih izbora u Hrvatskoj koji su se dogodili kao posljedica raspada vladajuće koalicije. Uvod u ove nagle izbore na kojima se sustav preferencijalnoga glasovanja rabio tek drugi put bila je kratka izborna kampanja i promjena vođe najveće stranke (HDZ), što je utjecalo na snažnu prisutnost elementa personalizacije u kampanjama vodećih stranaka i koalicija. Ovaj rad analizira kako je pet vođa najjačih stranaka i koalicija bilo predstavljeno u šest dnevnih novina za trajanja službene izborne kampanje. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su kako su vođe dviju najvećih stranaka dominirali u medijskim objavama, ali i da je jedino novo lice među vođama u odnosu na prethodne izbore, predsjednik HDZ-a Andrej Plenković, imao izraženo pozitivan tretman u većini analiziranih medija. Konačno, rezultati pokazuju i kako su se politički programi i privatan život političkih vođa pokazali kao marginalne teme medijskih objava posvećenih političkim vođama.
- Subjects :
- Croatian
Croatia
2016 parliamentary elections
political leaders
daily newspapers
personalisation
Sociology and Political Science
Hrvatska
parlamentarni izbori 2016
politički vođe
dnevne novine
personalizacija
media_common.quotation_subject
Media coverage
Ranked voting system
Public administration
language.human_language
Newspaper
Surprise
Politics
General election
Political science
language
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
media_common
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13300288 and 18486096
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Društvena istraživanja : časopis za opća društvena pitanja, Volume 27, Issue 3
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....423cdd037325af32b6ad974b5e58dd0b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5559/di.27.3.05