Democracy and the Media A Comparative Perspective

Name: Democracy and the Media A Comparative Perspective
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ISBN: 9780521777438

ISBN-10: 0521777437

ISBN-13: 9780521777438

Edition: 2000

Authors: Richard Gunther, Anthony Mughan, W. Lance Bennett, Robert M. Entman

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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 medias 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…

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Anthony Mughan is Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at the Ohio State University.



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments



The Media in Democratic and Nondemocratic Regimes: A Multilevel Perspective




The Media and Politics in Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy




Institutional Incapacity, the Attentive Public, and Media Pluralism in Russia




Democratic Transformation and the Mass Media in Hungary: From Stalinism to Democratic Consolidation




The Modernization of Communications: The Media in the Transition to Democracy in Chile




Media Influence in the Italian Transition from a Consensual to a Majoritarian Democracy




The United States: News in a Free-Market Society




Japan: News and Politics in a Media-Saturated Democracy




The Netherlands: Media and Politics between Segmented Pluralism and Market Forces




Great Britain: The End of News at Ten and the Changing News Environment




Germany: A Society and a Media System in Transition




The Political Impact of the Media: A Reassessment



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Index