1st Edition
Party Colonisation of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe
By Péter Bajomi-Lázár
Copyright 2014
282 Pages
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Central European University Press
This book compares media and political systems in East-Central as well as in Western Europe in order to identify the reasons possibly responsible for the extensive and intensive party control over the media. This phenomenon is widely experienced in many of the former communist countries since the political transformation. The author argues that differences in media freedom and in the... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. Political and Media Systems in Central and Eastern Europe, 2. Hungary, 3. Bulgaria, 4. Poland, 5. Romania, 6. Slovenia, 7. Summary and conclusions: Veto Points in the System, References, Index of names
Biography
Péter Bajomi-Lázár is Head of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Budapest Business School. He worked between 2009 and 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at Oxford University.
