In my diploma thesis, I analyse media reporting on social policy in Slovenia in the preelection period. The basic thesis is that the discursive field of social policy is narrowed down to particular areas. Namely, it seems that the representatives of the political class avoid thinking about radical reforms (and even more so the public presentation of more "radical" ideas, such as universal basic income or universal basic services). Given that a comprehensive analysis of the media landscape would be quite extensive, I focused on four selected media and concluded that the stated thesis is true. In most cases, only individual areas of social policy are highlighted, most often the health care problem, and it is often only a summary of previously prepared messages. In light of the neoliberalization of the field, specific problems are increasingly being addressed within social policy, while longer-term aspects are lacking. In conclusion, I asked myself the question of how to open a political and social debate about a better social policy, if the media (as one of the most important shapers of public opinion) and the political class (the class with the greatest power in changing the status quo) understand social policy more narrowly than experts do in this area and even narrower than defined in the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia.
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