This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world.

• INTRODUCTION


• 1: Jan Zielonka: Fragile Democracy, Volatile Politics, and the Quest for a Free Media


• MODELS


• 2: Paolo Mancini: The News Media between Volatility and Hybridization


• 3: Radoslaw Markowski: Normative and Empirical Models of Democracy


• 4: Béla Greskovits: Capitalist Diversity and the Media


• ACTORS


• 5: Péter Bajomi-Lázár: Political Actors and the Colonisation of the Media


• 6: Václav Stetka: The Rise of Oligarchs as Media Owners


• 7: Stanislaw Mocek: Journalists as Critical Change Agents and Popular Disseminators


• FACTORS


• 8: Martin Krygier: Good, Bad, and 'Irritant' Laws in New Democracies


• 9: Ainius Lasas: Daily Democracy: Politics, Media, and Democratic Culture


• 10: Inka Salovaara: Digital Democracies and Networked Publics


• CHALLENGES


• 11: Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud: Media Fragmentation and its Consequences for Democracy


• 12: Aukse Balcytiene: Acceleration of History, Political Instabilities, and Media Change


• 13: Ruzha Smilova and Daniel Smilov: Informal Politics and Formal Media Structures


• BENCHMARKS


• 14: Katrin Voltmer: Converging and Diverging Pathways of Media Transformation


• 15: José Santana Pereira: Variety of Media Systems in Third-Wave Democracies


• 16: John Keane: Mediated Despotism: A World Beyond Democracy


• REGIONAL EXPERIENCES


• 17: Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Sara García Santamaría: Media, Hegemony, and Polarisation in Latin America


• 18: Mark R. Thompson: Does the Watchdog need Watching in Southeast Asia?


• 19: Nicole Stremlau and Iginio Gagliardone: Media, Conflict, and Political Transitions in Africa


• CONCLUSIONS


• 20: Terhi Rantanen and Nikola Belakova: Why is it Important to Study the Media and Politics in New Democracies?

Jan Zielonka is Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College. He has published numerous works in the field of international relations, comparative politics and the history of political ideas. Zielonka studied Law at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and Political Science at the University of Warsaw where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. In 1982 he settled in the Netherlands, first at the University of Groningen and then, as from 1984, at the University of Leiden. In 1996-2003 he was Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence.