Comparing Media Systems Three Models of Media and Politics

Name: Comparing Media Systems Three Models of Media and Politics
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ISBN: 9780521543088

ISBN-10: 0521543088

ISBN-13: 9780521543088

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini, W. Lance Bennett, Robert M. Entman

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Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the forces of change that are currently transforming them. It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Concepts and Models



Introduction



Comparing media systems



The political context of media systems



Media and politics and the question of differentiation



The Three Models



Mediterranean or polarized model



North/Central European or democratic corporatist model



North Atlantic or liberal model



The Future of the Models



Homogenization



Conclusion