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Media independence is vital for media democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it.
The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within media systems within Europe, which form part of the wider framework in which mediaandrsquo;s independence may flourish or fade. Based on research in more than forty countries, the contributions analyze the independence of regulators from different perspectives and draw links between social, financial, and legal traditions and frameworks.
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"...Hallin and Mancini's valuable book advances theoretical understanding of Western media. Highly Recommended." D. Niven, Florida Atlantic University, Choice
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"The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies provides a solid survey of European practices and organizations, and how they are changing amidst the media technological revolutionand#8230;.Based on research in more than 40 countries, the contributions analyze the independence of regulators from different perspectives and draw links between varied social, financial and legal traditions and frameworks." and#160;
Synopsis
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.
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A comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system.
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An answer to the question first raised in the classic, 'Why is the press as it is?', examining the development of media systems in eighteen Western countries, and explaining why media systems evolved differently, and how their evolution can be understood within their political and historical context.
About the Author
Wolfgang Schulz is director of and professor of law at the Hans Bredow Institute at the University of Hamburg.and#160;
Peggy Valcke is research professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and teaches media law at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel.
Kristina Irion is assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy and research director in public policy at the Centre for Media and Communications Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.
Table of Contents
Editorand#8217;s Foreword
Preface
Karol Jakubowicz
Introduction: Structural interconnection of free media and independent regulators
1. Approaches to independence
Wolfgang Schulz
Part 1: Assessing the independence of regulatory bodies within the audiovisual media sector
2. Delegation to independent regulatory authorities in the media sector: A paradigm shift through the lens of regulatory theory
Kristina Irion and Roxana Radu
3. Independent media regulators: Condition sine qua non for freedom of expression?
Peggy Valcke, Dirk Voorhoof and Eva Lievens
4. Media regulatory authorities in the EU context: comparing sector-specific notions and requirements of independence
David Stevens
5. Locating a regulator in the governance structure: A theoretical framework for the operationalization of independence
Stephan Dreyer
6. Measuring independence: Approaches, limitations, and a new ranking tool
Kristina Irion and Michele Ledger
Part 2: Media systems and the culture of independence
7. Independence or balance of dependencies? Critical remarks on studying conditions of media regulators and public service media in Poland
Beata Klimkiewicz
8. The independence of media regulatory authorities and the impact of the socio-political context: A comparative analysis of Greece and Italy
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Federica Casarosa and Anna Kandyla
9. Does the complexity of institutional structures in federal states influence the independence of AVM regulatory authorities? A review of the cases of Germany and Belgium
Pierre Franand#231;ois Docquir, Sebation Mand#252;ller and Christoph Gusy
10. The independence of media regulatory authorities in Finland and the UK: An assessment
Rachael Craufurd Smith, Epp Lauk, Yolande Stolte and Heikki Kuutti
11. Independence through intervention? International intervention and the independence of the Communications Regulatory Authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tarik Jusiand#263;
12. Concluding chapter: Independence in context
Wolfgang Schulz
Contributorsand#8217; biographies