CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Dr.Dinók, Henriett Éva |
|---|---|
| Title | Framing of hate: a hungarian case-study of the political discourse about bias-motivated crimes |
| Summary | In my thesis I look at how the Hungarian government reflects on hate-motivated crimes and how the discourse reflects on the underlying phenomena of hate crimes, such as anti-Gypsyism, anti-Semitism and homophobia. I investigate whether the discourse about hate crimes is constructed in a way that it sends a symbolical message through the expression of different forms of condemnation. Furthermore, I examine whether hate crimes in the political discourse are more likely to be framed as structural problems or as individual criminal cases and whether there is a difference in the communication merely on the basis of the protected characteristics. To address these research questions, I use qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis to capture how the government talks about hate crimes and the underlying phenomenon. The thesis concludes that it seems that the Hungarian government is more likely to take a symbolical path in the communication about hate crimes and underlying phenomena with expressing its condemnation against hate crimes. On the other hand, the analysis suggests that the Hungarian government recognizes that anti-Semitism is an emerging problem, but only occasionally recognizes it in the case of racial violence, while homophobic violence is not recognized at all. Finally, the difference between the different protected characteristics is presented in the entire discourse. The discourse is undoubtedly positive in the case of Jewish people, less clear about Roma and there is no real discourse regarding to homophobia. |
| Supervisor | Lup Oana |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/dinok_henriett.pdf |
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