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CHP7 - Civil Society and IFP (Civil Society (4 voluntary organistion in…
CHP7 - Civil Society and IFP
Public opinion and Media
CNN effect - 24hr news - humanities crisis
Gatekeeping
Agenda setting
Priming
growing no of causalities will make the foreign agenda a domestic one - conflict intensify
The Pluralist - assume power is dispersed, including in the media/public so none dominates
The Elite - concentrated power within groups
Public opinion ,media and FP interrelate in different ways according to the supply and demand for info
IRL has good knowledge of how the EU works, been a critical factor in successive referendums on treaty changes
Depends on the Salience of EU policies
Diverse readership,market share,editorial style and political position
Irish broadsheets use syndicated British and U.S newspaper services
the nature of source used may well impact significantly on the data collected and the theoretical relationship between media, public opinion and gov
Civil Society
FP has traditionally been insulated from democratic accountability
overlap between charitable and community development
Sphere of civil society relates to such a quintessentially state-centred activity as FP
a powerful role after colonial independence 'a first world country with a third world memory
Re-evaluation of the sharp distinction between voluntary/private/political characteristics
IRL NGO's with development aid - Concern,Gorta
Irish Association if Non-Governmental Development Organisations
60% of its funds come from the public - independence from gov
High Profile - pressure on issues such as aid spending
Economic interest groups - deeply structured by its economics functioning, culture and ownership
The Irish business and employers confederation (IBEC)
Combo of globalisation and europeanisation breaks down the strict domestic/foreign distinctions
EU trade Union Confederation provide a policy networks for its work includes many international solidarity activities
4 voluntary organistion in 1966 - 0ver 80 in 2012
Advocacy groups take up a single issue e.x trade, debt, development
Social links,services - Irish Diaspora
anti-apartheid,oversea aid > anti-nuclear,peace movements,refugees
Informing/moving specific public policy debates
Further European integration during successive referendum campaigns on EU treaties
Media coverage of civil society groups show they make a determined efforts to influence public opinion and gov policy
Irish Council of the european Movement,United Nations Association of Ireland
New Uni course do to with IF and INRL
Political Parties
reinforce the impression from the comparative INLR and electoral literature that dissension within parities
Pragmatic on EU issues and strong elite control of them in centralised
rarely feature in the analysis of voters concern or party competition
FP issues have little influence on politics
Parties devote considerable time and effort on FP in elections,manifestos,opposition
Political parties are not well geared to fight referendum campaigns
complications with neutrality
ratification of these treaties are a threat to catholic values
undermine IRL sovereignty and equality of states in EU
Events that spark FP debate - Queens visit/ 2008 financial crisis - 9/11
Public care about - Euro,freedom to study and travel
'waste of the money' - loss of identity , non-neutrality
9/11 - Iraq 2003
IRL on security council
War on terriosm
gaining support on UNSC
Underscoring the degree of popular antipathy towards impending war
Use of Shannon airport - popular opposition the opinion shifted
Irish Civil society has opened up to internationalisation
information levels equalising more during a crisis between elites and mass publics, driven by the elite contention and public learning process better informed by the media
"Anglo-American State' bolstered by the prevailing conservation and the exercise of power, at least in the 1st stage of the crisis, if not thereafter when the intervention faltered
Theoretical work and the media over FP - Dynamic rather than static relationship depending on circumstance
FP - more distant from domestic democratic accountability unless more robust structure are put in place