Democracy and the media :  a comparative perspective / 
ed. by Richard Gunther, Anthony Mughan. 
 - transferred to digital printing 2004 
 - Cambridge [u.a.] :  Cambridge Univ. Press,  2004 
 - xv, 496 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Communication, society, and politics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther -- The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert -- Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd -- The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel -- Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo -- The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson -- Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss -- The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk -- Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko -- Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase -- The political impact of the media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521777437 0521771803 9780521771801 9780521777438 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Political aspects.<br/>Democracy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Communications media 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P 95.8  / D383 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23