Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics

by Daniel C. Hallin , Paolo Mancini

• ISBN13: 9780521543088
• ISBN10: 0521543088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	viii
List of Acronyms	xi
Preface	xiii
1 Introduction	1	(20)
Part I. Concepts and Models
2 Comparing Media Systems	21	(25)
3 The Political Context of Media Systems	46	(20)
4 Media and Political Systems, and the Question of Differentiation	66	(23)
Part II. The Three Models
5 The Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralist Model	89	(54)
6 The North/Central European or Democratic Corporatist Model	143	(55)
7 The North Atlantic or Liberal Model	198	(53)
Part III. The Future of the Three Models
8 The Forces and Limits of Homogenization	251	(45)
9 Conclusion	296	(11)
Bibliography	307	(22)
Index	329