The Post Communist Press In Eastern And Central Europe

Author : Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739174944

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Media Transformations in the Post-communist World by Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz Pdf

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This in-depth exploration shows how despite positive changes after the fall of Communism, the transformations of societal institutions, including the mass media, have turned out to be slow, uncertain, and unsatisfying to many when measured against the admittedly ambiguous and overly Panglossian expectations. This collection offers readers a different view of post-Communist media by examining the mass media's evolution in the region from a more holistic perspective. The contributors to this volume respond to essential questions, including: Is the post-Communist transition and transformation over? When can it be considered over? Each chapter contributes to our understanding of these questions by offering theoretical overviews and country-specific studies. This collection serves as an affirmation that the study of mass media is essential to understanding the nature and workings of democracy in the long-suffering nations of Central and Eastern Europe, with international applications. Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World is an indispensable contribution to the study of Eastern Europe after Communism, and the transformations of mass media in the region.

Author : Albert L. Hester,L. Earle Reybold,Kimberly Conger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019355994

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The Post-Communist Press in Eastern and Central Europe by Albert L. Hester,L. Earle Reybold,Kimberly Conger Pdf

Author : Péter Bajomi-Lázár
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633860427

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Party Colonisation of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe by Péter Bajomi-Lázár Pdf

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 politicization of the news media are rooted in differences in party structures between old and new democracies, and, notably, the fact that young parties in the new members of the European Union are short of resources, which makes them more likely to take control of and to exploit media resources.

Author : Jerome Aumente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042980667

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Eastern European Journalism by Jerome Aumente Pdf

This text covers five topics about journalism: its roots in East/Central Europe and former Soviet Union; its role and effect leading up to the events of 1989; the transition period; the contributions, trials and tribulations from 1989-1996; and the state of journalism education in these regions.

Author : Patrick H. O'Neil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135218331

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Post-Communism and the Media in Eastern Europe by Patrick H. O'Neil Pdf

This investigation of the media in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, seeks to outline the legacies of communism confronting media reform, and how interaction between the media, state, society and market has led to the particular and unique dynamics in each case.

Author : Robert Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351307345

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Reporting the Post-communist Revolution by Robert Snyder Pdf

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper.In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Václav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life.If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism.

Author : Grzegorz Ekiert,Stephen E. Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521529859

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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe by Grzegorz Ekiert,Stephen E. Hanson Pdf

This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's collapse in Europe. It brings together a number of leading senior and junior scholars with outstanding reputations as specialists in postcommunism and comparative politics to address central theoretical and empirical issues involved in the study of postcommunism. The authors address such questions as how historical 'legacies' of the communist regime be defined, how their impact can be measured in methodologically rigorous ways, and how the effects of temporal and spatial context can be taken into account in empirical research on the region. Taken as a whole, the volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature by utilizing the comparative historical method to study key problems of world politics.

Author : Balint Magyar,Julia Vasarhelyi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155513626

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Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State by Balint Magyar,Julia Vasarhelyi Pdf

The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil society, education, culture and so on. Beyond the basic features of the economy the domains of taxation, banking system, energy policies and the agriculture are treated in dedicated studies. The essays are based on detailed empirical investigation about conditions in today?s Hungary. They nevertheless contribute to the exploration of the characteristic features of post-communist authoritarian regimes, shared by an increasing number of countries in Europe and Central Asia.ÿ Joint publication with Noran Libro, Budapestÿ ÿ

Author : Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863701

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The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes by Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics Pdf

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.

Author : Seán Hanley,Aleks Szczerbiak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000143201

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Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe by Seán Hanley,Aleks Szczerbiak Pdf

This is the first book to cover the centre-right in post-communist Eastern Europe. It makes an vital contribution to the broader research agenda on the Central and East European centre-right by focusing on one specific question: why strong and cohesive centre-right formations have developed in some post-communist states, but not others. It also delves into the attempts to develop centre-right parties after 1989 in four nations: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The authors of these fresh case studies use a common analytical framework to analyse and provide fascinating insights into the varying levels of cohesion in centre-right parties across the region. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Author : Balázs Trencsényi,Péter Apor,Sorin Antohi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211294

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Narratives Unbound by Balázs Trencsényi,Péter Apor,Sorin Antohi Pdf

The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989–1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.

Author : B lint Magyar
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155513541

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Post-Communist Mafia State by B lint Magyar Pdf

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ

Author : Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864289

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Making Sense of Dictatorship by Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow Pdf

How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.

Author : Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester,Magdalena J. Zaborowska,Elena Gapova
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0253216966

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Over the Wall/after the Fall by Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester,Magdalena J. Zaborowska,Elena Gapova Pdf

Annotation A rich and appealing tour of post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe as seen from East and West.

Author : Paul Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134634378

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Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by Paul Lewis Pdf

Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe is the first textbook to survey the course of party developments in eastern Europe as a whole in the post-Communist period. This book relates the specifics of the post-communist situation to the broader picture of the early stages of party development in western Europe and also to contemporary models of party organisation in established democracies. The book includes: · a brief historical introduction to the context of post-communist change · the process of competitive party formation and democratic elections · the development of independent parties; their ideologies, and electoral volatility · the structure and level of organisation developed by new parties · an analysis of stable party systems which have emerged in eastern Europe and the contribution they make to emerging democracies in the region Party Politics in Post-Communist Eastern Europe will be a comprehensive and invaluable resource, accessible to undergraduates of politics and European studies, as well as the non-specialist reader.