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

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X221114654" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X221114654</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221114654" target="_blank" >10.1177/0095327X221114654</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Armed Forces & Society

ISSN

0095-327X

e-ISSN

1556-0848

Svazek periodika

50

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

202-223

Kód UT WoS článku

000837353900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85135744317