Democracy and the media : a comparative perspective

Other Authors: Mughan, Anthony, Gunther, Richard.
Published: Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000..
Series:Communication, society, and politics
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Table of Contents:
  • The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther
  • The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert
  • Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz
  • Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd
  • The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel
  • Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo
  • The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson
  • Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss
  • The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk
  • Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko
  • Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase
  • The political impact of ther media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan.