The impact of cultural diplomacy on the Eurovision song contest
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F25%3A43927068" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/25:43927068 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-025-09541-5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-025-09541-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10824-025-09541-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10824-025-09541-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The impact of cultural diplomacy on the Eurovision song contest
Original language description
This paper uses the Eurovision song contest (ESC) to test the impact of cultural diplomacy on international sentiment between countries. The ESC is a hugely-popular televised contest where juries and viewers of one European country vote for multiple performers of other European nations. We use the number of cultural institutes along with foreign tourists, visiting students and cultural goods from the performers' nation to the judges' host nation to measure cultural diplomacy. Using a bilateral gravity model, we find that that each measure of cultural diplomacy has a positive impact on the voting points received by the source performer. When separated between jury and televoting, we find that cultural diplomacy has a positive effect on televoting by viewers, but no significant effect on expert jury voting. Our results therefore suggest that intentional cultural diplomacy can improve a country's positive sentiment in the eyes of other nations.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Cultural Economics
ISSN
0885-2545
e-ISSN
1573-6997
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
34
Pages from-to
777-810
UT code for WoS article
001473719000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003491565