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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. Comparative Governance
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1542387
This article is part of the Research Topic The Politics of Crises - The Crisis of Politics in Central and Eastern Europe View all 10 articles
Crisis frames in the public discourse of the Municipality of Budapest after the Covid-19 pandemic XY LUPS, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies 1
Provisionally accepted- National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
This paper aims to investigate the Municipality of Budapest as a discursive actor; as an agenda-setter, politics-interpreter, and policy problem-definer. The focus of the research is to explore how the city government has used the term crisis to frame issues, political positions, and policy proposals, and to influence the thematic directions in the public discourse after the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, the analysis collects the policy-relevant collocations of the crisis frame used by the municipal politicians of Budapest, or rather lists the terms in which the crisis frame activated. In addition, the study searches the main characteristics of the most and least frequently used collocations with regard to their tone, context and the values attached to them. Besides all that, the text also discusses the role of the crisis frame in the definition of (certain) public policy problems and the political strategies that have been associated with the use of the term.
Keywords: Crisis frames, Municipality of Budapest, Urban politics, Policy problem definer, Agenda setter
Received: 11 Dec 2024; Accepted: 17 Mar 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Gábor Pál, National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
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