Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics

by Paolo Mancini and Daniel C. Hallin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521543088
• ISBN13: 9780521543088
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"