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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Policy failure or moral scandal? Political accountability, journalism and new public management
- 2013
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In: Media Culture and Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 0163-4437 .- 1460-3675. ; 35:8, s. 960-976
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Political accountability is fundamental in a democratic society. Societal changes such as the marketization of the public sector have, however, made accountability issues complex and negotiable. The question of who is to be held to account for policy failures is increasingly a subject of struggle within the media. The aim of this article is to examine how journalism does “accountability work” in a political setting marked by new public management. The empirical study focuses on an example of intensive news coverage of the mistreatment of elderly people in private health care, in Sweden, 2011. A corpus of 156 news items is analyzed. The analysis focuses on the use of accountability interviews, and how journalism constructs boundaries of political accountability by framing social problems. In general, the study shows that the political accountability work carried out was weak and restricted, the problems were constructed as a moral scandal instead of a policy failure.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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The Mediatization of Political Accountability - Politics, the news media logic and industrial crises in the 1980s and 2000s
- 2014
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In: Journalism Studies. - 1461-670X. ; 15:3, s. 321-338
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study investigates how political accountability, as a key democratic principle, is performed in the media and how the practices and representations of accountability are transformed over time by the influences of mediatization. The implications of mediatization are analyzed with a focus on how aspects of media dramaturgy and independent journalism influence news reporting of political responsibility and how politicians are held to account in the media. The effects of mediatization are understood as conditioned by other structural changes in political life, in particular depoliticization. The empirical study is designed as a comparison of news reports on two national industrial crises in 1980–1982 and 2008–2011, and is based on content analyses of daily morning newspapers, evening tabloids, and regional and local newspapers. The study provides evidence for a non-linear understanding of mediatization. Significant aspects of media dramaturgy are shown to be rather stable between the two time periods whilst the journalistic independence and interpretations increase as expected. The hypothesis of depoliticization receives some support although the results are not unambiguous.
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961, et al.
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Inledning
- 2019
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In: Mats Ekström & Bengt Johansson (red.): Metoder i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144125701 ; , s. 11-26
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Journalism and local politics
- 2010
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In: The Routledge companion to news and journalism. - London : Routledge. - 9780415465298 - 9780203869468 ; , s. 256-266
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961, et al.
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Journalism and the scrutiny of local politics. A study of scrutiny and accountability in Swedish journalism
- 2006
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In: Journalism Studies. - 1461-670X. ; 7:2, s. 292-311
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article presents a study on the role of daily news reporting in the scrutiny of local politics. Political accountability is defined as an important aspect of scrutiny. The study shows that the kind of scrutinizing often mentioned in the literature, characterized by thorough investigations and disclosures of political wrongdoings, nearly doesn’t exist at all in the local press. However, by identifying other forms of scrutinizing more closely related to ordinary news reporting, the study shows that one third of the articles are in some aspect scrutinizing, out of 1500 analysed articles. An overall conclusion is that the local press plays an important role in communicating information and critique concerning how local authority service areas works, and how political responsibilities are fulfilled. The study also indicates that this role has been strengthened during the second half of the 20th twentieth century. The press in three different municipalities has been studied at three different points of time (1961, 1981 and 2001).
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961, et al.
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Negotiating politicians' responsibilities in news interviews
- 2016
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In: Journalism Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; 10:8, s. 983-1004
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- News interviews are contexts in which political responsibilities are articulated and negotiated. Although the accountability interview is recognized as a commonsense practice in journalism, and the research on political interviews is substantial, it partly remains to explore how responsibilities are negotiated in different forms of questioning in journalism. This study investigates three generic forms of questioning: accountability questioning, the clarifying of promises, and the principal assessments. Key features of the different forms are specified. The empirical study investigates how the questionings are performed in news on industrial crises in Sweden, in the different political regimes in the 1970s and the 2000s. The data consist of 27 news interviews with the formally responsible Ministers. The method is based on Conversation Analysis and includes detailed analyses of questions and answers. The study shows (1) how the forms of questioning differ when it comes to the action agenda and in how responsibilities are invoked and negotiated; (2) how the questionings tend to reproduce particular expectations of Governmental interventions; (3) how increased assertiveness and adversarialness in interviewing coincide with reduced expectations of political responsibilities.
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