Representation of People's Foreign Policy Orientations in the Public Communication of Ukrainian Power Elites

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2016
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Ivanov, Oleh
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The article presents the preconditions and empirical limitations for implementation of ideal-type deliberative democratic decision making in foreign relations sphere which exist in Ukraine. Communicative representation theory explains the stability of the Ukrainian public system in the foreign policy dimension (Ukraine-Russia relations case) through the functionality of foreign policy determined by elites, social tension and conflict of orientations in the transformation period. Politicians'communication is generalized through media-strategies: the hidden (nomenclatura-styled), ambivalent, and confrontational. A computer algorithm for structural and morphological analysis of large amounts of text data (Ukrainian and Russian messages on official web-sites) created. Text corpuses are transformed into the semantic network of an issue, combined with all of the attributes which an analyst may be interested in (time, place, author, potential audience, etc.). For the analysis of large number (hundreds) of surveys with different sample size and different wording of questions the technique of thematic clustering of questions with the use of content analysis applied.
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representation, communication, power elite, international relations, Ukraine, Russia, political orientations
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Ivanov Oleh. Representation of People's Foreign Policy Orientations in the Public Communication of Ukrainian Power Elites / Oleh Ivanov // Władza Sądzenia. - 2016. - Nr. 8. - P. 13-40.