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Supranational emergency politics? What executives' public crisis communication may tell us
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Abstract This contribution engages with the empirical analysis of emergency politics in the EU, arguing that executives' public communication helps to distinguish crisis management from crisis exploitation. An initial, descriptive text analysis of emergency emphasis in more than 19,000 executive speeches sug... view more
This contribution engages with the empirical analysis of emergency politics in the EU, arguing that executives' public communication helps to distinguish crisis management from crisis exploitation. An initial, descriptive text analysis of emergency emphasis in more than 19,000 executive speeches suggests that supranational actors, most notably the European Central Bank, do indeed use rather alarmist language over and beyond objective crisis pressures when their competences are contested. Yet, this behaviour does not appear to be a ubiquitous phenomenon, pointing to the need for more specific expectations on when and why EU executives pro-actively embark on the emergency politics script.... view less
Keywords
European Commission; European Central Bank; EU; political communication; text analysis; public communications; crisis management (econ., pol.); crisis communication
Classification
European Politics
Free Keywords
European Union; emergency politics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 966-978
Journal
Journal of European Public Policy, 29 (2021) 6
ISSN
1466-4429
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed