Željko Poljak- PhD
- Postdoctoral researcher at University of Antwerp
Željko Poljak
- PhD
- Postdoctoral researcher at University of Antwerp
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I am a postdoctoral researcher and a member of the M²P (Media, Movements & Politics) research group at the University of Antwerp.
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Various research has been directed towards investigating the behaviour of political parties engaging in attacks. However, this topic has predominantly been studied in campaigning venues while focusing only on the attacker (parties that are attacking). This study contributes to the existing literature by (i) studying attack behaviour in the parliame...
The literature has found that politicians who lag behind in public approval ratings during campaigns resort to more negativity. However, the actual impact of approval on the use of negativity during the electoral cycle has yet to be addressed. Furthermore, due to the short-lived nature of campaigns, current studies have been unable to establish a d...
Studies examining parties' attack behaviour, also called negative campaigning, largely neglect temporal dynamics. Therefore, this paper examines how the electoral cycle, the period between two elections, impacts parties' attack behaviour in parliaments. We argue that parties attack all the time but that the (i) level, (ii) type, and (iii) nature of...
Various studies have been devoted to explaining the conditions under which parties engage in attack behavior. However, the existing literature has overlooked the issues on which parties attack. This study addresses this gap by arguing that the issues on which parties attack others are conditioned on their salience and the parties’ ownership. We arg...
Recent studies indicate that politicians' negativity usage fails to enhance their approval ratings among the general public, yet politicians regularly use it. This begs the following question: why are politicians so negative if this strategy does not bolster their prospects for re-election? In this paper, I argue that the media, driven by audience...
Politicians regularly claim to represent groups of citizens, shaping how these groups feel represented. However, most existing studies focus on groups deemed 'deserving' of representation or analyze claims made in election manifestos. This study therefore examines the temporal dynamics of politicians' claims of representation, including both deserv...
Studies have shown that citizens’ engagement on social media drives politicians to adapt the issues they discuss online. However, for representative democracy to function effectively, politicians must not only discuss these issues but also act on them. This paper explores whether higher citizens’ engagement on social media shapes the issues politic...
Numerous studies have delved into issue attention in parliamentary questions directed at the executive cabinet, yet our understanding of cabinet members’ answers to these questions remains limited. Consequently, this paper investigates whether cabinet members strictly adhere to the issues raised in questions or actively divert attention in a differ...
Social media has become an increasingly important tool for parties to set issues on the political agenda. However, its rapid rise raises questions about the role of traditional venues such as parliaments. This study hypothesizes that parties strategically choose to initiate issues in parliamentary debates instead of on social media to establish dom...
In election research, the notion of “permanent campaigning” suggests that the differences between election periods and routine periods are blurring and that it becomes ever more difficult to distinguish between the two. Today, more than ever, social media allow politicians to constantly communicate with the public. This would imply that it is empir...
Despite the widespread notion that political incivility is on the rise, including the British Parliament, there is scarce research that systematically examines political incivility over time within and outside of the British context. As such, this chapter presents a rare longitudinal study of adversarial communication in the British Parliament. We...
QuestionTimeIssue v.1 is a dataset on issue attention during parliamentary question time sessions from Australia (2011-2022), Belgium (2010-2022), Canada (2006-2022), Croatia (2004-2022) and the UK (2010-2022). Each issue from the Comparative Agendas Project master codebook (economy, social welfare, law and order, education, etc.) for each question...
QuestionTimeParticipant v.1 is a dataset on participants during parliamentary question time sessions from Australia (2011-2022), Belgium (2010-2022), Canada (2006-2022), Croatia (2004-2022) and the UK (2010-2022). Each politician that spoke during a question time session is treated as an observation (e.g. Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Ian Blackford,...
QuestionTimeSpeech v.1 is a dataset on speech contributions during parliamentary question time sessions from Australia (2011-2022), Belgium (2010-2022), Canada (2006-2022), Croatia (2004-2022) and the UK (2010-2022). Each speech contribution during a question time session is treated as an observation (e.g. questions, answers, replies, points of ord...
It has been well established that politicians attack their competitors to reach their political goals. As such, there is a considerable amount of literature on their attack behaviour. However, this literature almost exclusively investigates attack behaviour during campaigns, and so far, few studies have addressed the nature of attacks during more r...
Despite the contemporary notion that government and opposition parties’ agendas in the long run positively influence each other, there are reasons to argue that different dynamics are at play as well. More specifically, previous studies neglected to address the short-term, transient interplay between parties’ agendas (within a year) while dominantl...
The author analyses the transport policy of the rail sector in Croatia and tries to give answers regarding the policy stability and change based on the actors in the rail transport. The aim of the paper is to give an overview of the development of the rail sector in modern Croatia and to explore, in a larger period, the relations and beliefs of all...
This paper questions the concept of policy image in terms of urban governance. Policy image is a key concept developed by Baumgartner and Jones in order to explain policy stability and punctuation in the context of punctuated equilibrium theory. When there is a single dominant policy image, it keeps policy in stability, but when there are one or mo...
Paul A. Sabatier (1944.-2013.) bio je i ostao jedan od najpoznatijih američkih politologa u grani javnih politika koji je fond znanja te grane obogatio mnogim radovima, pogotovo u studijama implementacije javnih politika i istraživanju politike zaštite okoliša. Međutim, među njegovim najznačajnijim i najcitiranijim radovima, ističu se upravo oni ko...
Autor u radu preispituje temeljne koncepte klasičnih teorija političkog odlučivanja i njihove usporedbe s donošenjem odluka tijekom rata. Obrađuju se dvije pionirske teorije političkog odlučivanja: ograničena racionalnost i inkrementalizam. Sukladno tome, autor prvo izlaže teorijski okvir u kojem opisuje prethodno navedene teorije te iznosi njihove...
Autor se u radu bavi teorijom isprekidane ravnoteže i njezinom operacionalizacijom. Isprekidana ravnoteža opisuje proces stvaranja javnih politika u vidu dugih perioda stabilnosti politika i njezinih radikalnih promjena koje se događaju naglo. S obzirom na složenost i nadograđivanje same teorije, autor je u radu želi operacionalizirati u vidu ključ...
The international symposium entitled Urban Governance in Europe: Preparing for Diversity, Social Sustainability and Migration, hosted and organized by the Department of Public Management of the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences was held on September 28-30, 2016 at Oslo and Akershus University College in Oslo, Norway. The symp...
Od njezinih početaka sredinom prošlog stoljeća pa sve do danas, javne politike su se kao akademska disciplina dominantno izučavale u Americi. Takva situacija je rezultirala da se postavljanje dnevnopolitičkog reda (engl. agenda setting) uglavnom istraživalo samo u kontekstu američkog političkog sustava i američkih javnih politika. Međutim, da se va...
Teorija isprekidane ravnoteže od početka devedesetih do danas stekla je zavidan status (ako ne i najpoznatiji) u longitudinalnom proučavanju javnih politika. Danas gotovo ne postoji pojmovnik ili udžbenik javnih politika koji se ne bavi u većoj ili manjoj mjeri teorijom isprekidane ravnoteže i njezinim konceptima. Sukladno tomu, cilj je ovoga rada...
Javne politike mlada su grana političke znanosti, koja se kasno javlja i u hrvatskoj politologiji. Međutim, kroz posljednja tri desetljeća, sve većom zainteresiranošću studenata, znanstvenih novaka i profesora na Fakultetu političkih znanosti, javne politike svoj su polazišni stručni razvoj završile. U prilog tome ide Pojmovnik javnih politika, ure...
In this paper, the author deals with the punctuated equilibrium theory and its operationalization. The punctuated equilibrium theory describes the policy- making process in terms of long periods of policy stability and its radical change that occurs suddenly. Given the complexity and upgrading of the theory, in this paper the author seeks to operat...
Knjigu Politički proces stvaranja javnih politika Zittoun je objavio 2014. u sklopu serije Studija o političkoj ekonomiji javnih politika izdavača Palgrave Macmillan, a koja okuplja istraživače javnih politika iz cijelog svijeta. Knjiga je zapravo prijevod i nadopuna posljednje Zittounove knjige La fabrique politique des politiques publiques iz 201...
