Framing COVID-19: Political Discourse of the SNP, ERC and Junts during the 2021 Scottish and Catalan Regional Elections

IF 0.5 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Scottish Affairs Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.3366/scot.2022.0418

Mátyás Gergi-Horgos

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Abstract

Adding to the growing scholarship on discourse analysis, cognitive frame theory and minority nationalism, this study examines how three of the most successful regional powers in Europe, the SNP in Scotland and Junts and ERC in Catalonia framed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to mobilize voters during the 2021 Scottish and Catalan regional elections. The quantitative and qualitative assessment of their Facebook communication suggests that diagnostic, prognostic and motivation framing was applied which are key elements of successful voter mobilization. Communication directly related to COVID-19 was used strategically during the campaigns to criticize the central governments and ascribe blame for the health and economic crisis. Posts about the virus also offered a platform for parties to highlight the successes of regional crisis management and to depict nationalist party candidates for regional governance as truly experienced politicians. Lastly, the SNP, ERC and Junts all argued that the crisis highlighted the weaknesses of the state structures that Scotland and Catalonia belong to. By framing independence as the only viable path to end the COVID-19 crisis, parties offered citizens a clear plan that was entirely dependent on voters casting their ballot papers in favour of nationalist politics.

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框架COVID-19: SNP, ERC和Junts在2021年苏格兰和加泰罗尼亚地区选举期间的政治话语

除了在话语分析、认知框架理论和少数民族主义方面日益增长的学术研究外，本研究还研究了欧洲最成功的三个地区大国——苏格兰的SNP、加泰罗尼亚的Junts和ERC——如何在2021年苏格兰和加泰罗尼亚地区选举期间，利用正在进行的COVID-19大流行来动员选民。对他们在Facebook上的交流进行的定量和定性评估表明，他们采用了诊断、预测和动机框架，这是成功动员选民的关键因素。在运动期间，与COVID-19直接相关的沟通被战略性地用于批评中央政府，并将健康和经济危机归咎于中央政府。有关该病毒的帖子还为各政党提供了一个平台，以突出区域危机管理的成功，并将民族主义政党的区域治理候选人描述为真正有经验的政治家。最后，SNP、ERC和Junts都认为，这场危机凸显了苏格兰和加泰罗尼亚所属国家结构的弱点。通过将独立作为结束新冠肺炎危机的唯一可行途径，各政党向公民提供了一个明确的计划，该计划完全依赖于选民投票支持民族主义政治。

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Scottish Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Scottish Affairs, founded in 1992, is the leading forum for debate on Scottish current affairs. Its predecessor was Scottish Government Yearbooks, published by the University of Edinburgh''s ''Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland'' between 1976 and 1992. The movement towards the setting up the Scottish Parliament in the 1990s, and then the debate in and around the Parliament since 1999, brought the need for a new analysis of Scottish politics, policy and society. Scottish Affairs provides that opportunity. Fully peer-reviewed, it publishes articles on matters of concern to people who are interested in the development of Scotland, often setting current affairs in an international or historical context, and in a context of debates about culture and identity. This includes articles about similarly placed small nations and regions throughout Europe and beyond. The articles are authoritative and rigorous without being technical and pedantic. No subject area is excluded, but all articles pay attention to the social and political context of their topics. Thus Scottish Affairs takes up a position between informed journalism and academic analysis, and provides a forum for dialogue between the two. The readers and contributors include journalists, politicians, civil servants, business people, academics, and people in general who take an informed interest in current affairs.