Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics - =Communication, Society and Politics Series

Klappentext Proposing a framework for comparative analysis of the relationship between the media and the political system! this book surveys media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies. It identifies the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. It then pinpoints three major models of media systems development (the Polarized Pluralist! Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) and explains why the media play a different role in politics in each of these systems. Zusammenfassung An answer to the question first raised in the classic! 'Why is the press as it is?'! examining the development of media systems in eighteen Western countries! and explaining why media systems evolved differently! and how their evolution can be understood within their political and historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Concepts and Models: 1. Introduction; 2. Comparing media systems; 3. The political context of media systems; 4. Media and politics and the question of differentiation; Part II. The Three Models: 5. Mediterranean or polarized model; 6. North/Central European or democratic corporatist model; 7. North Atlantic or liberal model; Part III. The Future of the Models: 8. Homogenization; 9. Conclusion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Daniel C Hallin, Daniel C. Hallin, Daniel C. (University of California Hallin, Paolo Mancini, Paolo (Universit... degli Studi di Perugia Mancini, Paolo (Universita degli Studi di Perugia Mancini
• Con la collaborazione di: W. Lance Bennett (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521543088
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54308-8
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Communication, Society and Politics; Print On Demand; Print on Demand; Communication, Society and Politics
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società