Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics
By - Hallin, Daniel C.eties , Mancini, Paolo , American Council of Learned Societies
Floor
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Floor 1
Published
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004
ISBN 13 - 9780521543088
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Mass media--Political aspects
Shelf No
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13
Call Number
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302.23 HAL
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations
Notes
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Includes Bibliography and Index
"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. 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 that 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 force 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 comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context."--Jacket