Understanding Media Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Recasting the Contours of Media Policy in a Political Context: An Introduction

   • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Dia Anagnostou

   Pages 1-20

3. Media Policy in Belgium: How a Complex Institutional System Deals with Technological Developments

   • Bart Van Besien, Pierre-François Docquir

   Pages 21-36

4. Democracy and the Media in Bulgaria: Who Represents the People?

   • Ruzha Smilova, Daniel Smilov, Georgi Ganev

   Pages 37-53

5. Croatia: A Dynamic Evolvement of Media Policy

   • Paško Bilić, Nada Švob-Ðokić

   Pages 54-69

6. Danish Media Policy

   • Henrik Søndergaard, Rasmus Helles

   Pages 70-84

7. Media Policy in Estonia: Small Market Paradoxes

   • Urmas Loit, Halliki Harro-Loit

   Pages 85-99

8. Finnish Media Policy: Less Restrictive, More Directive

   • Heikki Kuutti, Epp Lauk, Pasi Nevalainen, Riitta Sokka

   Pages 100-115

9. Media Policy in Germany: Main Features and Current Issues

   • Sebastian Müller, Christoph Gusy

   Pages 116-132

10. The Greek Media Policy Revisited

    • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Anna Kandyla, Dia Anagnostou

    Pages 133-149

11. Italian Media Policy Under Ongoing Transition to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century

    • Federica Casarosa

    Pages 150-165

12. Struggling with Media Capture: Romania

    • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Cristian Ghinea

    Pages 166-181

13. Slovakia: Reinventing Media Policy Without a Practical Perspective

    • Andrej Školkay, Mária Ondruchová-Hong

    Pages 182-197

14. Media Policy in Spain: Public Service, Free Competition, and Some Internal Diversity

    • Susana de la Sierra, Emilio Guichot, Marina Mantini, Irene Sobrino

    Pages 198-213

15. Turkish Media Policy in National Context

    • Dilek Kurban, Esra Elmas

    Pages 214-229

16. Media Policy in the United Kingdom: Trust and Distrust in a Converging Media Environment

    • Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte

    Pages 230-246

17. Serving Two Masters: The Roles of the Market and European Politics in the Governance of Media Transformations

    • Katharine Sarikakis

    Pages 247-256

18. Back Matter

    Pages 257-284

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Leading scholars investigate media policies in Europe, inquiring into the regulatory practices, policy tools and institutional features of media policy-making in 14 countries. The book offers a fresh assessment of the ways European media policies are formulated and identifies the factors that exert an influence throughout the process.

• democracy
• Europe
• Germany
• Governance
• Institution
• media
• Policy
• transformation

'This very timely, extremely valuable and well-organised collection of informative analyses of media policies in Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in media policy debates, institutional arrangements and regulatory practices within a wide framework of conflicting interests and differing national approaches to communication challenges. Highly commendable!' - Petros Iosifidis, Director of the MA Media and Communication courses, City University London, UK

'Understanding Media Policies puts together fascinating evidence of the patchwork of national media policy models in Europe, yet it provides a common background for their comparison. This is a valuable contribution to the growing literature in media policy studies, with compelling descriptions of politics shaping media landscapes.'

- Beata Klimkiewicz, The Jagiellonian University, Poland

• Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, Greece

  Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

DIA ANAGNOSTOU Lecturer of Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at Macedonia University of Thessaloniki, Greece PA KO BILI? Research Assistant at the Department for Culture and Communications, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia FEDERICA CASAROSA Research Assistant at the European University Institute RACHAEL CRAUFURD SMITH Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK SUSANA DE LA SIERRA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain PIERRE-FRANÇOIS DOCQUIR Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre Perelman for Legal Philosophy and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Information Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ESRA ELMAS PhD Researcher at the department of Political Science in Galatasaray University, and a Teaching Assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey CRISTIAN GHINEA Executive Director of the think tank Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE), a political analyst and a columnist in the Romanian media EMILIO GUICHOT REINA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Seville, Spain CHRISTOPH GUSY Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld, Germany HALLIKI HARRO-LOIT Associate Professor and the head of the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia RASMUS HELLES Assistant Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ANNA KANDYLA Research Assistant at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, Greece DILEK KURBAN Director of the Democratisation Program at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) HEIKKI KUUTTI Research Fellow in Journalism at the Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland EPP LAUK Professor of Journalism at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland URMAS LOIT Lecturer at the University of Tartu, Estonia MARINA MANTINI Researcher for the MEDIADEM project at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain SEBASTIAN MÜLLER Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Bielefeld, Germany ALINA MUNGIU PIPPIDI Professor of Governance and Democracy Studies at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany PASI NEVALAINEN Doctoral student in Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland MÁRIA ONDRUCHOVÁ-HONG Senior Researcher at School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, Slovakia KATHARINE SARIKAKIS Professor of Media Governance, Media Structures, and Media Organisation at the University of Vienna, Austria IRENE SOBRINO Lecturer and Researcher in Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain RIITTA SOKKA Participated in the research project 'The Publicity of Information of Authorities' at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland HENRIK SØNDERGAARD Associate Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark YOLANDE STOLTE Editor for the online legal journal 'SCRIPTed' ANDREJ KOLKAY Director of the School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, Slovakia NADA VOB-?OKI? Scientific adviser in the Culture and Communications Department, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia BART VAN BESIEN Researcher at the Centre Perelman for Legal Philosophy, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium

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