Overview
- Draws on nearly 50 interviews with investigative journalists and 34,000 articles collected from eight media outlets
- Improves our understanding of why politicians transgress constitutional rules
- Roots its analysis in understanding of executives’ basic dependence on political support in parliamentary democracies
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000. Situated in the literatures on Europeanization, democratization, party studies, and media studies, the book aims to connect these fields by showing that internal party dynamics play an important role in motivating executive politicians to hijack or collaborate with media. Against this backdrop, the book tells the story of Croatian journalism in the context of media-mafia conglomerates, political corruption, and media hijacking, and examines how "traditional" democratic drivers that the literature frequently cites, such as Europeanization and party competition, failed to prevent systematic transgressions by politicians. Methodologically, the book takes a two-pronged approach. First, nearly 50 interviews were conducted with Croatian investigative journalists, from which the narratives about the relationshipsbetween government politicians and editors over 15 years were reconstructed. In a second step, a sample of 40,000 media articles was subjected to a computational sentiment analysis, covering the same 15-year period and showing high levels of cooperation between corrupt politicians and corrupt media outlets.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tomislav Maršić is a political and media scientist with a professional background in political consulting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media Capture And Corrupt Journalists
Book Subtitle: How Europeanization Helped Build Façades of Democracy
Authors: Tomislav Maršić
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05035-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05034-3Published: 14 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05037-4Published: 14 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05035-0Published: 13 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Communication, Journalism