International Organisations legitimation in the media in Eurasian post-socialist countries

Authors

  • Krzysztof Rybinski Department of Business and International Relations, Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4604-7993
  • Orsolya Ring Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i3.1296
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Keywords:

International organisations, Legitimation, Text Mining, Sentiment, Analysis, Flexible LDA

Abstract

The paper presents the first-ever big data analysis of International Organisations (IOs) legitimation in the media in Eurasian post-socialist countries. We use text mining and regression analysis to quantify intensity, tone, and narrative in the media as three critical dimensions of legitimation. The model is applied to a corpus of 1.3 million newspaper articles from six countries and twelve IOs. We show that contrary to earlier studies covering established democracies, the tone of articles on IOs is predominantly positive. Articles mentioning influential domestic politicians contribute to the delegitimation of the IOs featured, except in Poland.

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2025-01-09

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Rybinski, K. and Ring, O. 2025. International Organisations legitimation in the media in Eurasian post-socialist countries. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 10, 3 (Jan. 2025), 90–116. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i3.1296.

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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2024): Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions

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