Trends in Communication Policy Research

'The depth of ... [the paper's] scholarship is clearly apparent and demonstrated.' James Alleman, Communications & Strategies

Natascha Just and Manuel Puppis are senior research and teaching associates at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zrich, Switzerland.

Chapter 1: Introduction Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis Chapter 2: Communication Policy Research: Looking Back, Moving Forward Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis PART I: NEW THEORIES Chapter 3: Prospects and Pitfalls of Douglass Norths New Institutional Economics Approach for Global Media Policy Research Jan Loisen Chapter 4: Its the Idea, Stupid! How Ideas Challenge Broadcasting Liberalization Matthias Kunzler Chapter 5: The Accountability and Legitimacy of Regulatory Agencies in the Communication Sector Manuel Puppis & Martino Maggetti Chapter 6: Change and Divergence in Regulatory Regimes: A Comparative Study of Product Placement Regulation Avshalom Ginosar Chapter 7: Technologies as Institutions: Rethinking the Role of Technology in Media Governance Constellations Christian Katzenbach Chapter 8: Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Media Policy Research? Ulrike Klinger PART II: NEW METHODS Chapter 9: A Political Scientists Contribution to the Comparative Study of Media Systems in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini Peter Humphreys Chapter 10: What We Talk about When We Talk about Document Analysis - Kari Karppinen & Hallvard Moe Chapter 11: Qualitative Network Analysis: An Approach to Communication Policy Studies Maria Lblich & Senta Pfaff-Rudiger Chapter 12: Towards a Media Policy Process Analysis Model and Its Methodological Implications Hilde Van den Bulck PART III: NEW SUBJECTS CONVERGENCE Chapter 13: Battle of the Paradigms: Defining the Object and Objectives of Media/Communication Policy Karol Jakubowicz Chapter 14: Content Control and Digital Television: Policy, Technology and Industry Andrew T. Kenyon, Julian Thomas & Jason Bosland Chapter 15: Regulating and Monitoring Online Activities of Public Service Broadcasters: The Case of Switzerland Natascha Just, Michael Latzer & Florian Saurwein STATE AID Chapter 16: Conditional Access for Public Service Broadcasting to New Media Platforms: EU State-Aid Policy vis- -vis Public Service Broadcasting the Dutch Case Jo Bardoel & Marit Vochteloo Chapter 17: Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the Main Characters Lucia Bellucci Chapter 18: New Approaches to the Development of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Europe? The Evolution of European Union Policy for Next-Generation Networks Seamus Simpson PARTICIPATION, POWER & THE ROLE OF GENDER Chapter 19: Public Service Television in European Union Countries: Old Issues, New Challenges in the East and the West Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Vaclav Stetka & Mikls Sukosd Chapter 20: Civil Society and Media Governance: A Participatory Approach Pietro Rossi & Werner A. Meier Chapter 21: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: Unfolding Gender Conscious Research for Communication and Cultural Policy Theory Katharine Sarikakis