Chapter 10 - Role of Public Opinion and Media Flashcards

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FPA v IR on Public Opinion / Media

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FPA better understands state-level variables, whereas IR just kind of acknowledges.
IR are bad at accounting for this because they focus on structure and unitary states.

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New Liberalism and Domestic Factors

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FP is determined domestically first (understanding domestic through a liberal lens)

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Two Models of Media

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Pluralist Model
Elite Model
(Both are true at varying degrees)
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Pluralist Model of Media

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Media acts as a restraint and check on the government
They are independent from political influence
No one group determines interests of states

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Elite Model

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Power is so concentrated within elite groups and dominate politics
The media is subservient to elites
Media a mouthpiece for state

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BBC v CBC Model

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Quasi-autonomous funding model (funded by, but not dependent on, government)
CBC is totally dependent.

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Four Types of Publics within a State

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Attentive
Mass
Isolationist
Internationalist

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A small attentive public leads to…

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More room for elites to make decisions

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Casualty v Defeat Phobic

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The tension in the public for not wanting defeat but not wanting mass casualties.

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Interests Motivate, Principles Legitimate

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State goes to war based on interests, but they persuade the public on moral grounds

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Media are central to the _____/_____ nexus.

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Public Opinion/FP nexus.

If so, how much of an effect does the media have on policy outcomes / agenda setting?

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Public Sphere

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The role of the media within democratic states to facilitate full and open debate on important issues (obviously doesn’t totally happen - won’t touch certain things)

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Two Types of Media Roles and Two Media Tools

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Watchdog - scrutinizes and holds to account the government and also represents the opinions of the public
Agenda-setter - the media causes people and DMs to pay attention to issues that they have raised (Within boundaries)
Priming and framing

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Media Empowerment Thesis

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Developments in communication tech have allowed journalists to be freer to criticize FP

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Priming

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The ability of the media to prepare and direct publics to the issues by which they should their leaders.

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Framing

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The way in which the actual presentation of news information influences how people perceive issues.

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Three Parts of Sphere of Consensus

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Sphere of Consensus - when elites all agree, the media won’t dissent - they are mouthpiece
Sphere of Legitimate Controversy - when elites don’t agree, the media is more comfortable to push them
Sphere of Deviance - completely separate from elites (Info-Wars, Chapo)

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Procedural v Substantive Criticism and Influence

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Procedural - describes media criticism and influence that relates to debates over implementation of policy decision
Substantive - describes criticisms and influences that relate to the underlying justifications and rationale for FP

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Realism and Media/Public Opinion

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FP should be immune from media influence
Moral communities/activists influence stays within the state, can’t be applied outside. They don’t consider interests.
Both media and public opinion should reflect this (super elitist)

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Liberalism and Media/Public Opinion

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They are constraints on elected leaders and therefore on the external behaviour of states
Emphasis on individual and their relationship to the government

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Critical Approaches and Media/Public Opinion

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All rooted in discussions of power.
Political/economic structures dominated by socioeconomic elites
Media maintains, propagates ideas of, inequality

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Organized Persuasive Communication (OPC)

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Propaganda
Uses: strategic communication, public diplomacy, perception management, PR, psychological operations, political marketing, political communications
Frequently includes distortion, deception, and coercion

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OPC and the War on Terror

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Framed in such a way that it’s a blank cheque.

Anyone can be a terrorist - it allows people to construct their own boogey-man, and therefore would be more supportive.

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Liberals and the War on Terror

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Hard for them to back their claim that their exists a more independent and critical post-Cold War media.
Some worry it’s an attack on the interests of individuals.

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Realists, Critical Theorists on the War on Terror

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The war’s impact on media autonomy and public perception of global affairs confirms subservience to broader political and economic forces