Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:43:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriel Ferreira Carvalho.pdf: 1239864 bytes, checksum: 91bb85bb4e726eeb04deee10aabae809 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-22 / The present research is an analysis of the environment theme during Brazil’s presidential election in 2010. At that time, there was a candidate from the Green Party, Marina Silva, who received about 20 million votes. In order to do this analysis, this research aims at studying the presence of environmental issues in political articles published during the electoral process in question. The object chosen for analysis were the pages of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, which has the largest daily circulation in the country and is set as the public sphere. The research looks at the concerns regarding the environmental issues throughout world history, in Brazil and in politics. The research also presents the main theories underlying the study of journalism, so the articles can be analyzed as journalistic texts by their frameworks, scheduling themed and public opinion. The method used to analyze the articles was Content Analysis, which employs categories to identify in the texts speeches that are compatible with the categories (qualitative results) searched. Furthermore, it allows one to check the count and percentage of categories approached in the text (quantitative). At the end, integrated into the results were integrated, leading to the conclusion that the environmental issue was not discussed by the candidates nor the newspaper. / A presente pesquisa trata da temática do meio ambiente na eleição à presidência da república no Brasil em 2010 . Isto porque, na ocasião havia a presença da candidata do Partido Verde, Marina Silva, a qual conseguiu cerca de 20 milhões de votos. Para tanto, tem por objetivo geral analisar a presença da questão ambiental nas matérias políticas durante o processo eleitoral em questão. O espaço escolhido para a análise foram as páginas do jornal Folha de S. Paulo, por ser o diário de maior circulação no país e, se configurar como a esfera pública midiática. A pesquisa nesse sentido traçou uma configuração da preocupação ambiental ao longo da história mundial, o meio ambiente no Brasil e na política. A pesquisa também traz as principais teorias que permeiam os estudos do jornalismo, para que possam ser analisados os textos jornalísticos a partir de seus enquadramentos, o agendamento temático e a opinião pública. O método elencado foi o da Análise de Conteúdo onde a partir de categorias foi possível identificar no material empírico as falas significativas compatíveis com as categorias (resultados qualitativos), com verificação da contagem e tratamento percentual das categorias do texto. Ao final, integraram-se os resultados qualitativos e quantitativos, demonstrando que a questão ambiental não é debatida nem pelos candidatos nem pelo jornal.

This diploma thesis is devoted to the comparative analysis of presidential elections in Ukraine in relation to the theory of hybrid regimes. First, the thesis illuminates the events that happened in the beginning of the Ukrainian independence which affected the distribution of power between executive and legislative branches. The comparative analysis is applied to the particular elections in the years 1999, 2004 and 2010 with emphasis on the pre-electoral campaigns, legislative changes, election process, respect to rules, election results and the fundamental events which influenced the elections. Next, the thesis analyses elections mentioned above on the ground of the elected theories of hybrid regimes with the goal to assess to their democratic character.

This thesis analyzes the role of the press in five political campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago, over a ten year period, from 2000 to 2010. Using framing theory, it seeks to determine if the level of structural and partisan bias in the three daily newspapers in the country was a major factor in the outcome of general elections. This thesis further examines how press coverage of national elections contributed significantly towards development of a healthy democracy in Trinidad and Tobago and this research on media and politics, especially over a defined period of electoral volatility in the country, is the first of its kind in the Caribbean and will complement existing literature written on this subject worldwide. It is also the only comprehensive study on media bias in electoral coverage of political campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago in a context in which there have been public allegations of media bias by political leaders in the country. The two - pronged methodological approach of content analysis, and interviews with media practitioners allow for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of case studies of electoral campaigns using innovative research tools such as a bias scale and coding template, to minimize the margin of error in the analysis. In this thesis the issue of whether the press did have an influential effect on election outcome is also explored. Based on analysis and findings, this thesis proposes a new model of media and politics for countries like Trinidad and Tobago transitioning from a system of authoritarianism to liberalism called an “emerging liberal democratic model”. The evolution of this model is a work in progress which may have implications for other similar societies.

New Zealand’s 2008 general election, with its unprecedented focus on the “ethnic vote” and ethnic minority candidates with highest-ever party list rankings, proved compelling from a migrant engagement perspective. How do migrant communities achieve voice in their adopted country? And how does a now unmistakably multicultural nation address the political communication needs of an increasingly vocal, pro-active, and politically involved migrant population? This thesis examines the role of ethnic minority media in engaging migrant communities in the democratic process. In particular, it examines South Asian media in New Zealand and the extent to which they represented a vital public sphere for informing and engaging their wider migrant communities in public political debate during the 2008 election campaign. Applying qualitative and quantitative research approaches, this thesis elicits and analyses diverse perspectives of the extent to which local South Asian newspapers and radio current affairs programming represented an important complementary public sphere for informing and engaging migrant voters during the campaign. Ultimately, this study provides an alternative perspective on media coverage of the 2008 New Zealand general election, and insight into the role and influence of ethnic minority media within democratic discourse. As a contribution to the body of academic literature examining the media and minority political engagement, it is intended to provoke critical consideration of the communications needs facing new migrants in an increasingly multicultural New Zealand.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:25:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 253.pdf: 730945 bytes, checksum: 06de873e805a93c156c9d4c02a088b7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-03-02 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / Under a sartorian perspective, we characterized the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) as an anti-system party until the middle of the 90´s, because in some of their actions the party s objective was to cause symbolic impacts that could unlegitimize the Brazilian political system. Using the Panebianco s theoretical model, we try to explain how PT processed the institutional changes that made the party leaves gradually its anti-systemic character, making it possible its approach in relation to the centrist political forces that became clear in the presidential electoral campaign in 2002. Such migration toward the center nominated by political variable, and the quest for more competitiveness in a competitiveness variable were essential for the 2002 electoral campaign s modernization when Lula conquered the Presidency. This modernization was verified by an comparative cases study which compared this with the 1989 electoral campaign, very close to the non-modernized polo, according to un archetype constructed by Mancini and Swanson; the electoral campaigns analyzed represented reflections of the party s mutation. / Em uma perspectiva sartoriana, caracterizamos o Partido dos Trabalhadores como um partido anti-sistema até meados dos anos 90, na medida em que algumas das ações partidárias buscavam causar impactos simbólicos deslegitimadores sobre o sistema político nacional. Lançando mão do modelo teórico de Panebianco, buscamos explicar como o PT processou as alterações institucionais que o fariam abandonar gradativamente este caráter anti-sistêmico, fazendo viável a aproximação em relação a forças políticas centristas que se tornou diáfana na campanha presidencial de 2002. Tal migração rumo ao centro que intitulamos de variável política, e a busca de maior competitividade eleitoral em uma variável de competitividade foram determinantes à modernização da campanha eleitoral petista que levou Lula à Presidência. Esta modernização foi verificada através de um estudo comparativo de casos que a contrapôs à campanha petista de 1989, muito próxima de um pólo nãomodernizado, conforme arquétipo traçado por Mancini e Swanson; as campanhas analisadas constituíram-se, assim, em reflexos da mutação da agremiação.

This Diploma Thesis "Mediatization of Political Sphere" deals with the systematic influence of mass media and their logic on the functioning of the political system, process development and implementation of policy instruments and methods of political communication. First of all the theoretical part is focused on the description of the institutional importance of media in the social environment, more properly introduces images of the effects of media communications in the society, characteristics of the participation of media organizations in the economic relations so that the concept of mediatization in the frame of media studies could be defined and to specify its aspects in connection with a set of knowledge of media logic. The thesis does not omit the introduction of basic logic elements of political sphere, it also deals with its implicit settings, as well as modifications of the political structures in response to transfer a large part of the policy enforcement into the symbolic space of the media. The theoretical interpretation is followed by the research which is focused on the selected elements of mediatization in the Czech context. In the first stage the quantitative research method of content analysis is used to find out which topics and which representatives are observed by the Czech...