{"title":"REFRAMING THE DEBATE: AGENDAS, FRAMING GOVERNANCE ISSUES AND THE POLITICS IN PMLN's GOVERNMENT FROM 2013 TO 2018","authors":"Salman Amin, G. Shabir, Saqib Riaz","doi":"10.51380/gujr-36-02-10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to investigate the governance issues during regime of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) from 2013 to 2018 in the lenses of the English Pakistani newspapers. The sole purpose is to examine that how the newspapers framed the general issues, as it is showing the performance of the government. The research design was a quantitative content analysis method and analyzing frames \"Good\" and \"Bad\" in perspective of Agenda setting level 2 \"Framing Theory\". All news stories related to general issues were published in the selected Pakistani English newspapers from the (2013 to 2018) that has been analyzed. The census method applied to investigate the problem. The finding of the study revealed that the socio-economic development was not priority of an elected government and opposition parties hindered democracy by engaging it in an adversarial politics with the traditional political style. Moreover, elected democratic government was unable to uphold its pre-election promises.","PeriodicalId":20643,"journal":{"name":"Proposed for presentation at the 2020 Virtual MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit held November 27 - December 4, 2020.","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proposed for presentation at the 2020 Virtual MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit held November 27 - December 4, 2020.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.51380/gujr-36-02-10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The study aims to investigate the governance issues during regime of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) from 2013 to 2018 in the lenses of the English Pakistani newspapers. The sole purpose is to examine that how the newspapers framed the general issues, as it is showing the performance of the government. The research design was a quantitative content analysis method and analyzing frames "Good" and "Bad" in perspective of Agenda setting level 2 "Framing Theory". All news stories related to general issues were published in the selected Pakistani English newspapers from the (2013 to 2018) that has been analyzed. The census method applied to investigate the problem. The finding of the study revealed that the socio-economic development was not priority of an elected government and opposition parties hindered democracy by engaging it in an adversarial politics with the traditional political style. Moreover, elected democratic government was unable to uphold its pre-election promises.