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Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions

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The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy

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Media policy analysis seeks to ‘examine the ways in which policies in the field of communication are generated and implemented, as well as their repercussions or implications for the field of communication as a whole’ (Hansen et al., 1998, p. 67). Most critical academic media policy research is conducted ex post, tracing how certain policy outcomes came about, why certain policy outcomes rather than others became dominant, what parties were involved in the decision-making process, and how power was distributed among them (Fischer, 2003, 2008). As such, a rich tradition of research into media policy has developed, including analysis of media policies at the level of the EU.

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Van den Bulck, H., Donders, K. (2014). Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions. In: Donders, K., Pauwels, C., Loisen, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032195_2

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