Media, Development, and Institutional Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development. The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects a country's ability to prosper. The authors identify specific media-related policies governments of underdeveloped countries should adopt if they want to grow. They illustrate why media freedom is a critical ingredient in the recipe of economic development and why even the best-intentioned state involvement in media is more likely to slow prosperity than to enhance it.Scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology; policy-makers, analysts and others in the development community; and academics in media studies will find this book insightful and provocative.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Thinking in Political Economy series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781847204783

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Christopher J. Coyne, Mercatus Center and Department of Economics and Peter T. Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, George Mason University, US

Recensioner i media

‘Media, Development, and Institutional Change is substantively about the relationship between the media and economic development. But in the course of pursuing this issue, Coyne and Leeson also present the clearest exposition yet in print of the "New Comparative Political Economy", of which the book itself also constitutes an excellent example. This fact alone makes the book worth reading for all economists interested in the market process and institutional change, regardless of whether or not they are interested in the particular subject of the role of free media in development.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: 1. The Big Picture: Media, Development, and Institutional Change 2. The Reformers’ Dilemma 3. The Determinants of Media Effectiveness 4. Inside the Black Box: Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation 5. Case Studies of Media, Institutions, and the Reformers’ Dilemma 6. Conclusion – Implications for Policy Index