Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics / / Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784314003321
• Autore: Hallin Daniel C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 0-511-20894-4; 1-107-14980-0; 1-316-09928-8; 1-280-54008-7; 0-511-79086-4; 0-511-21433-2; 0-511-21612-2; 0-511-21075-2; 0-511-30285-1; 0-511-21252-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Communication, society and politics
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Mass media - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-327) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; FIGURES; TABLES; List of Acronyms; Preface; ONE Introduction; WHY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS?; SCOPE OF THE STUDY; THE LEGACY OF FOUR THEORIES OF THE PRESS; MEDIA SYSTEM MODELS; DO WE NEED NORMATIVE THEORIES OF THE MEDIA?; LIMITATIONS OF DATA; PLAN OF THE BOOK; TWO Comparing Media Systems; THREE The Political Context of Media Systems; FOUR Media and Political Systems, and the Question of Differentiation; FIVE The Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralist Model; SIX The North/Central European or Democratic Corporatist ModelSEVEN The North Atlantic or Liberal Model; EIGHT The Forces and Limits of Homogenization; NINE Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.