Czech public opinion on Turkey's accession to the EU: An analysis through the lenses of sociological and discursive institutionalism

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech public opinion on Turkey's accession to the EU: An analysis through the lenses of sociological and discursive institutionalism

Original language description

While Turkey lacks significant levels of public support fromthe Czech Republic in its EU bid, the existing studies of European public opinion on the question of Turkey do not bring any reasonable explanation as to why this can be so. To shed light on this problem, this article offers an analytical framework derived from sociological and discursive institutionalism. First, it shows that the historical/cultural context in the Czech Republic has created an informal institution built around the norms of "othering" Muslim societies like Turkey (sociological institutionalism). Second, based on the media coverage of selected political issues from Turkey between 2005 and 2010, it argues that this institution both enables and constrains the "discursive ability"of the media in communicating these issues to its audience (discursive institutionalism). Since the media-as a political actor-mostly acts to maintain this institution and does not critically debate it, the public opinion of Turkey as th

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Perspectives

ISSN

2336-825X

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

71-95

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