Democracy and the Media
A Comparative Perspective
Published on 28. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
516 pages
978-0-521-77743-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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'... a useful teaching tool in courses of political science or communication.' Acta PoliticaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
25 Tables, unspecified; 8 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
829 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-77743-8 (9780521777438)
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Content
1. The media in democratic and non-democratic regimes: a multilevel perspective Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther; 2. Politics and the media in Spain: from dictatorship to democracy Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon Montero and Jose Ignacio Wert; 3. Institutional incapacity, the attentive public and media pluralism in Russia Ellen Mickiewicz; 4. Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary: from Stalinism to democratic consolidation Miklos Suekoesd; 5. The modernization of communications: the media in the transition to democracy in Chile Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel; 6. Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democracy Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo; 7. The United States: news in a free-market society Thomas Patterson; 8. Japan: news and politics in a media-saturated democracy Ellis S. Krauss; 9. The Netherlands: the media in a depillarized society Cees van der Eijk; 10. Great Britain: the end of the 'News at Ten' and the changing news environment Holli S. Semetko; 11. The media and politics in the New Germany Max Kaase; 12. The political impact of the mass media: a reassessment Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan.