… Media and democracy is a set of ideas advocating reforming the mass media,. group that
promotes media democracy by encouraging open communication systems In particular, the …

… For now, the main point is that we should not think about democracy in terms of the mere
existence of elections. If we want true majoritarian democracy, what really matters is whether—…

… neo‐liberalism and media deregulation helped produce a crisis of democracy in the United
… deregulation on media culture in the 1990s, see McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy. …

… McChesney’s award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption
that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect, …

… ), the ranked actors include the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. The … "poor." This
fact has profound political implications, as we shall shortly see in our discussion of democracy, …

Public deliberation is essential to democracy, but the public can be fooled as well as
enlightened. In three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, Benjamin Page explores the …

… The electoral market imperfections that we explore below help to explain a wellknown
distortion in public spending, in rich and poor democracies: the preference of governments to …

… a variation in media freedom … democracy and autocratic subtypes, on media freedom. It is
argued that regime legitimation and governance are the driving forces behind diverging media …

… media could become a national fccdback mcchanism by providing a randomaccess conduit
for all the wisdom, creativity, and diversity of our citizens. Our mass media are only a poor …

… Although the public sphere may fit the democracies of Western Europe, I find it more useful,
in America, to think of that sphere as a symbolic arena, a stage or set of public stages open …