Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521543088)

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.

Author: Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini
ISBN-10: 0521543088
ISBN-13: 9780521543088
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2004
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2004 pg. 477