Understanding Media Policies

Leading scholars investigate media policies in Europe, inquiring into the regulatory practices, policy tools and institutional features of media policy-making in 14 countries. The book offers a fresh assessment of the ways European media policies are formulated and identifies the factors that exert an influence throughout the process.

'This very timely, extremely valuable and well-organised collection of informative analyses of media policies in Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in media policy debates, institutional arrangements and regulatory practices within a wide framework of conflicting interests and differing national approaches to communication challenges. Highly commendable!' - Petros Iosifidis, Director of the MA Media and Communication courses, City University London, UK 'Understanding Media Policies puts together fascinating evidence of the patchwork of national media policy models in Europe, yet it provides a common background for their comparison. This is a valuable contribution to the growing literature in media policy studies, with compelling descriptions of politics shaping media landscapes.' - Beata Klimkiewicz, The Jagiellonian University, Poland

DIA ANAGNOSTOU Lecturer of Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at Macedonia University of Thessaloniki, GreecePA KO BILI? Research Assistant at the Department for Culture and Communications, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, CroatiaFEDERICA CASAROSA Research Assistant at the European University InstituteRACHAEL CRAUFURD SMITH Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UKSUSANA DE LA SIERRA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, SpainPIERRE-FRANÇOIS DOCQUIR Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre Perelman for Legal Philosophy and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Information Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), BelgiumESRA ELMAS PhD Researcher at the department of Political Science in Galatasaray University, and a Teaching Assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, TurkeyCRISTIAN GHINEA Executive Director of the think tank Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE), a political analyst and a columnist in the Romanian mediaEMILIO GUICHOT REINA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Seville, SpainCHRISTOPH GUSY Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld, GermanyHALLIKI HARRO-LOIT Associate Professor and the head of the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia RASMUS HELLES Assistant Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkANNA KANDYLA Research Assistant at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, GreeceDILEK KURBAN Director of the Democratisation Program at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)HEIKKI KUUTTI Research Fellow in Journalism at the Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandEPP LAUK Professor of Journalism at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandURMAS LOIT Lecturer at the University of Tartu, EstoniaMARINA MANTINI Researcher for the MEDIADEM project at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain SEBASTIAN MÜLLER Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Bielefeld, GermanyALINA MUNGIU PIPPIDI Professor of Governance and Democracy Studies at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, GermanyPASI NEVALAINEN Doctoral student in Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandMÁRIA ONDRUCHOVÁ-HONG Senior Researcher at School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, SlovakiaKATHARINE SARIKAKIS Professor of Media Governance, Media Structures, and Media Organisation at the University of Vienna, AustriaIRENE SOBRINO Lecturer and Researcher in Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain RIITTA SOKKA Participated in the research project 'The Publicity of Information of Authorities' at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandHENRIK SØNDERGAARD Associate Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkYOLANDE STOLTE Editor for the online legal journal 'SCRIPTed'ANDREJ KOLKAY Director of the School o