This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media
and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West …

It is only in recent years that a tradition of empirically grounded comparative research into
media systems has developed. One of its most important contributions has been to insist on …

One of the most important and dominant questions in the study of political communication is
how the media aids citizens to become informed voters (Holbert 2005: 511). 1 The media is …

The chapter provides an overview of the development of theoretical approaches to
comparing media systems since Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm's classic Four Theories of …

Whenever I prepare a lecture on media and politics, I agonize over how much I feel I have
left out. When I teach the students, I can see them agonizing over how much I have put in …

This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative
perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic …

In the preface to Comparing Media Systems we wrote that we would be satisfied if our book
were able to spark a more developed discussion of theory and method in the comparative …

The unexpected magnitude of the 'third wave'of formerly autocratic countries establishing, or
beginning to establish, democratic institutions over the last decade of the twentieth century …

Communicating Democracy presents the first comprehensive comparative investigation of
the role of the media in the move toward democracy in developing and post-communist …

Used by Seymour-Ure and by Blumler and Gurevitch the concept of “political parallelism”
gained further prominence after Hallin and Mancini took it as one of their key variables in the …