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The Communicated IO: Public Relations, Civil Society Inclusion and Global Politicization of International Organizations

沟通的IO：公共关系、公民社会包容性和国际组织的全球政治化

基本信息

批准号：
236311339
负责人：
Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2012-12-31 至 2016-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/236311339?language=en
关键词：
Communicated IO Public Relations Civil

项目摘要

Does an increase in the public communication of international organizations (IO) foster the politicization of their policies and procedures? IOs are publicly debated and contested--that is, politicized--to varying degrees. At the same time, they have opened for societal processes of communication, by virtue of intensified public relations activities as well as the inclusion of civil society organizations (CSO) into IO-internal deliberations, decisions and the implementation of IO-policies. In this context, it is widely held that such increases in the level of IO public accessibility fosters politicization because information about failures become more readily available to external actors. However, the opposite might be true as well: an IO might avoid or manipulate public contestation--by way of professionalizing their public relations or marginalizing critics by selectively including CSOs into own activities. Against this backdrop, the project asks about the impact of IO public relations and CSO-inclusion on politicization. It pursues an explanatory approach with a strong focus on what makes politicization a critical variable for democracy: the emergence of a lively and inclusive public sphere that allows civil society actors to hold IO authority accountable.The project, in its first part, entails the coding and multivariate analysis of public statements of about 50 IOs that can be found in the newsfeeds of two transnational news agencies during three ministerial conferences per IO between 2004 and 2012. The second part of project adds four in-depth case studies using press releases of IO and CSO. The selection of cases draws upon a 'most similar system design'. Both parts of the project allow for complementary conclusions on the causal effects of increasing levels of public accessibility on politicization. Both parts promise important insights about existing inequalities in global politicization--important evidence for an empirically grounded evaluation of institutional arrangements and communication strategies of IOs.

国际组织公共交流的增加是否会助长其政策和程序的政治化？国际组织在不同程度上受到公开辩论和争议----也就是政治化。与此同时，由于加强了公共关系活动，并将民间社会组织纳入国际组织的内部审议、决策和国际组织政策的执行，这些组织已向社会交流进程开放。在这种情况下，人们普遍认为，信息作战公共可及性水平的提高助长了政治化，因为外部行动者更容易获得有关故障的信息。然而，相反的情况也可能是正确的：国际组织可能会避免或操纵公共宣传-通过使其公共关系专业化或通过有选择地将民间社会组织纳入自己的活动而使批评者边缘化。在此背景下，该项目询问了国际组织公共关系和民间社会组织参与对政治化的影响。它采取了一种解释性的方法，重点关注是什么使政治化成为民主的一个关键变量：一个活跃和包容的公共领域的出现，使民间社会行为者能够对信息作战当局负责。该项目在其第一部分，需要对大约50个国际组织的公开声明进行编码和多变量分析，这些声明可以在三个部长级会议期间的两个跨国新闻机构的新闻提要中找到。2004年至2012年期间，每个IO的会议。项目的第二部分增加了四个深入的案例研究，使用新闻稿的IO和CSO。案例的选择借鉴了“最相似的系统设计”。该项目的两个部分都允许就公众无障碍程度的提高对政治化的因果影响得出互补结论。这两部分都承诺对全球政治化中现有的不平等现象提出重要见解-这是对国际组织的体制安排和传播战略进行经验性评估的重要证据。