Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory
bodies governing it. The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores …

British broadcasting institutions have a great deal of formal autonomy from the state and
government, but their authority to broadcast derives from the state, and, ultimately, it is to the …

Mass media is critical for the functioning of every contemporary political system. Thus, we
can expect a variation in media freedom depending on the type of government since political …

As public broadcasting in Europe has declined in relative terms in the overall supply of
television broadcasting, its activities have become more subject to scrutiny, both by …

Political executives often influence how effectively citizens can monitor them, yet the link
between executives and government transparency is not well developed in the literature. I …

Two interesting dimensions emerge from investigations of press-state relationships in the
western democratic nations: consistently strong norms favoring press freedom and …

The relationship between media ownership and partisan bias has been an important source
of controversy in emerging democracies. Systematic tests of the effects of ownership …

The literature on media independence shows that the public statements of government
officials can simultaneously stimulate news coverage and regulate the discursive …

When and how does press coverage maintain independence from governments' preferred
language? Leading scholarship argues that elites shape media content, especially in …

Against a backdrop of great change in technology and the economics of broadcasting and
new media, this timely survey of contemporary attitudes to accountability and the public …