Democracy and the media : a comparative perspective
This book presents a systematic overview and assessment of the impacts of politics on the media, and of the media on politics, in authoritarian, transitional and democratic regimes in Russia, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its analysis of the interactions between macro- and micro-level factors incorporates the disciplinary perspectives of political science, mass communications, sociology and social psychology. These essays show that media's effects on politics are the product of often complex and contingent interactions among various causal factors, including media technologies, the structure of the media market, the legal and regulatory framework, the nature of basic political institutions, and the characteristics of individual citizens. The authors' conclusions challenge a number of conventional wisdoms concerning the political roles and effects of the mass media on regime support and change, on the political behavior of citizens, and on the quality of democracy
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1 online resource (xv, 496 pages)
9781139175289, 1139175289
817922110
The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther
The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert
Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz
Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd
The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel
Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo
The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson
Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss
The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk
Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko
Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase
The political impact of the media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan
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