Democracy and the media
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: edited by Richard Gunther, Anthony Mughan.
Contributors: Gunther, Richard.; Mughan, Anthony
Series: Communication, society, and politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-485) and index.
Table of contents: title: The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther; title: The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert; title: Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz; title: Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd; title: The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel; title: Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo; title: The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson; title: Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss; title: The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk; title: Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko; title: Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase; title: The political impact of ther media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan.