6 results on '"Eisele, Olga"'
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2. Welfare Attitudes and Expressions of (Trans)national Solidarity.
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Kurowska, Anna, Eisele, Olga, and Kiess, Johannes M.
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WELFARE state , *SOLIDARITY , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
The article explores the extent to which Europeans' welfare attitudes explain (trans)national solidarity behavior. We set our analyses against the backdrop of the broader debate of welfare state consequences: Does a strong welfare state that is considered to take care of those in need diminish or strengthen citizens' motivations to become engaged in helping others? We distinguish individuals' solidarity behavior toward others within the welfare state, that is, citizens within one's country, and outside the welfare state community of the respondents' particular country. We further distinguish different others outside the welfare state, that is, between refugees, taking the refugee crisis in the European Union (EU) as a prime example, and citizens living in other countries—in EU countries and non-EU countries. As far as the main explanatory variables are concerned, we derive from the concept of "multidimensional welfare attitudes" and focus on five crucial dimensions of these attitudes, that is, welfare goals, range, degree, redistribution, and outcome. We draw on data collected within the EU project TransSOL and calculate a set of multilevel logistic regression models controlling for a wide range of individual (sociodemographic, economic, and political) variables. Overall, we observe that a "crowding in" effect, that is, higher support of the welfare state, goes in line with solidarity activity toward others including both "outsiders" and "insiders" of the national community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Sharing Is Caring? Exploring the Relationship Between Preferences for Online Participation and Support for Solidarity Between EU Member States.
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Brändle, Verena K. and Eisele, Olga
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SOLIDARITY , *POLITICAL participation , *PARTICIPATION , *SOCIAL integration , *INFORMATION-seeking behavior - Abstract
The article explores the influence of online participation on individual-level support for burden-sharing measures among EU member states. The analysis is set against the backdrop of the discussion about solidarity in times of EU crises and follows an innovative approach by operationalizing social inclusion in the European Union via online participation. It is argued that the specific nature of the European Union favors the use of online channels for political information and participation, but that despite its inclusive potential, online participation does not necessarily mean public support for the European Union. Instead, we hypothesize that people who make more use of online participation channels—thus are supposedly better equipped to participate in EU politics—are more critical in their evaluation of burden-sharing measures. Based on a large-scale survey among EU citizens in late 2016, we conduct a regression analysis taking into account the influence of EU support and general considerations on solidarity. Results lend support to our hypothesis that people who participate in political affairs online do not express greater support for EU burden-sharing measures but are more critical. Results are interpreted as an expression of the constraining dissensus regarding EU politics: Negative effects are read as criticism of how solidarity in the European Union is implemented, not as opposition to solidarity in the European Union as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe
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Christian Lahusen, Verena K. Brändle, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Olga Eisele, Manlio Cinalli, Cinalli, Manlio, Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Brändle, Verena K., Eisele, Olga, and Lahusen, Christian
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business.industry ,Media studies ,Arts ,FOS: Humanities ,Political communication ,Massenmedien ,Public opinion ,Area studies ,Politics & international relations ,Solidarity ,Contentious politics ,Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi ,Humanities ,Flüchtling ,Solidarität ,Political science ,Public sphere ,Journalism ,320 Politik ,Europa ,business ,News media ,Berichterstattung ,Mass media - Abstract
This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research. The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and online news reception. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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5. Solidarity contestation in the public domain during the ‘refugee crisis’
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Olga Eisele, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Manlio Cinalli, Lahusen, Christian, Christian Lahusen, Cinalli, Manlio, Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Eisele, Olga, and Brändle, Verena
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Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi ,Political economy ,Political science ,Refugee crisis ,Public domain ,Solidarity - Published
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6. Contesting European Solidarity During the 'Refugee Crisis': A Comparative Investigation of Media Claims in Denmark, Germany, Greece and Italy
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Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Olga Eisele, Brändle, Verena K., Eisele, Olga, and Trenz, Hans-Jörg
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Communication ,Refugee ,05 social sciences ,Refugee crisis ,050801 communication & media studies ,16. Peace & justice ,Litmus ,Solidarity ,0506 political science ,Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi ,0508 media and communications ,Political economy ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,10. No inequality - Abstract
The migration crisis of 2015 and 2016 was a litmus test for EU solidarity, when increasing numbers of newly arriving refugees fueled its public contestation. Our overall assumption is that the “refugee crisis” contributed to a solidarity gap between inclusive liberal-cosmopolitan and exclusive communitarian attitudes in the EU. We investigate this assumption by contrasting positions regarding solidarity with refugees among state and societal actors. We base our analysis on a fresh dataset of solidarity claims in the largest print newspapers in Denmark, Germany, Greece and Italy for the period of August 2015 – April 2016 coded in the TransSOL project. These four countries were affected differently by the “crisis” and differently attractive for refugees and asylum-seekers as arrival, destination or transit countries. Results suggest a solidarity gap between state actors and societal actors and a higher degree of solidarity contestation in countries with state actors strongly promoting exclusive notions of solidarity. Results speak to the discussion about media representations of migration as well as the contestation of solidarity as a fundamental value.
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