Comparing Media Systems

Paolo Mancini, Daniel C. Hallin

ISBN 10: 0521543088 / ISBN 13: 9780521543088

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2004

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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 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comparing Media Systems
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521543088
• ISBN 13: 9780521543088
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.21W x 2.29H x 22.89D centimeters 15.21 centimeters width by 2.29 centimeters height by 22.89 centimeters depth
• Weight: 530 grams

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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, it identifies the principle 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.