Spanish politics play out in the media. Political elites seek media access to promote new
ideas and policy proposals, attack their political adversaries, and defend their party …

In Portugal, the media system has consistently mirrored the political system's main features.
During Salazar's dictatorship, there was widespread media censorship, a state monopoly of …

Executive summary Several factors compromise media freedom and independence in
Spain. These factors are related to dependencies both on the political powers and on private …

What roles did the communications media play in undermining sup port for the authoritarian
Franco regime, and in facilitating the transi tion to, and the consolidation of, democracy in …

Abstract MONTERO, Mercedes; RODRIGUEZ-VIRGILI, Jordi and GARCIA-ORTEGA,
Carmela. The Role of the Media in Building a Political Community. The Press in the …

This article argues that 'going public'—engagement in the mediation of public image-is a
basic requirement of contemporary politics in post-industrial democracies. This is no less …

Spain belongs to the Polarised Pluralist Model (Hallin & Mancini, 2004) which stresses the
high degree of political parallelism or media politicisation. It is visible in the …

Abstract [EN] Introduction. In the framework of mediatisation research, this article analyses
the way in which the media agendas and politics interacted during the process of social …

This article examines the relationship between the political leadership and mass media.
Television is of increasing importance in politics, and there is a progressive adoption ofthe …

The study of the 15M social movement, and then its transition into a political party like
Podemos is of particular interest in different fields such as sociology, politics and also …