Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics
"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
xv, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521835350, 9780521543088, 0521835356, 0521543088
53993000
Concepts and models
Comparing media systems
The political context of media systems
Media and political systems, and the question of differentiation
The three models
The Mediterranean or polarized pluralist model
The North/Central European or democratic corporatist model
The North Atlantic or liberal model
The future of the three models
The forces and limits of homogenization
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