Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics
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..., Hovland, Janis, & Kelly, 1953). The classic voting studies in sociology can also be traced to earlier interdisciplinary influences. For example, Tarde’s (1903) theories of diffusion, imitation, and interpersonal influence clearly shaped the work of Lazarsfeld et al. These pioneers promoted the notion that ordinary citizens had little capacity to reason or decide independently about politics (or other matters, such as fashion). Instead, their views were shaped by their group memberships and experiences and were thus less susceptible to direct influence from the media. Media influence was understood as contingent on social filters and interpersonal cues, as exemplified by the aforementioned ‘‘two-step flow’’ model of Katz and Lazarsfeld (1955) and the accompanying minimal effects school of media sociology (Klapper, 1960)....
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..., Hovland, Janis, & Kelly, 1953). The classic voting studies in sociology can also be traced to earlier interdisciplinary influences. For example, Tarde’s (1903) theories of diffusion, imitation, and interpersonal influence clearly shaped the work of Lazarsfeld et al....
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...These foundations have made it possible to begin important cross-national work on comparative analysis of the interface between media regimes and political systems (Curran et al., in press; Esser & Pfetsch, 2004; Hallin & Mancini, 2004)....
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...…and interdependencies of media systems, institutions and actors, political systems, culture, and sense making (Cook 2005; Dahlgren 2004; Hallin and Mancini 2004) as well as reciprocal effects of the media (Kepplinger 2007), beyond content-based media effects at the individual level and…...
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...At a general level, it can be argued that the media in democratic countries are always positioned somewhere between the political system and the economic system (Croteau and Hoynes 2001; Hallin and Mancini 2004)....
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...As shown by Hallin and Mancini (2004), the media in countries belonging to the polarized pluralist model, such as Italy, are more a part of the political system than the media in countries that form part of the democratic corporatist model, such as Sweden, and the liberal model, such as the United…...
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...While this is not the place to develop these arguments, it is still worth mentioning as it points toward the fact that the degree to which politics is mediatized in a particular society partly depends on the institutional setting (Cook 2005; Hallin and Mancini 2004)....
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