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Irish newspaper coverage of NGOs, legitimacy and accountability: what relevance for NGOs?

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Based on a quantitative content analysis of Irish Times newspaper articles, this study investigates how Irish relief and development NGOs were linked with the concepts of legitimacy and accountability in newspaper coverage between 1994 and 2009. Key findings included that NGO accountability received more coverage than NGO legitimacy, and “principal-agent” approaches to NGO accountability received more coverage than “stakeholder” approaches. Employing the media theories of agenda-setting and priming, one can infer that Irish Times readers might be more likely to evaluate Irish NGOs in terms of accountability than legitimacy and to consider NGO accountability in principal-agent rather than stakeholder terms.

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  • Marguerite Hughes, 2014. "Irish newspaper coverage of NGOs, legitimacy and accountability: what relevance for NGOs?," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(8), pages 1016-1031, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:24:y:2014:i:8:p:1016-1031
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.968837
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