Television and Politics in Evolving European Democracies

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Nova Publishers, 1999 - 247 pagini
Throughout the world, television has become an important part of the way in which political candidates and parties present their messages to voters during election campaigns. This is particularly true in campaigns at the national level where voters have little personal contact with candidates and must rely on experiencing candidates through the media. Despite the importance of the media for voter-government interaction, however, many new reform governments in the post-communist era in Eastern European countries failed to appreciate the demands of creating workable new media systems.
 

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Overview of Television and Politics in Established and Evolving Democracies
1
Political Television in Evolving European Democracies Political Media and Legal System Issues
11
Political Advertising in East Germany
33
Television spots in Polish Presidential Elections
45
Political Advertising in Bulgarian Television 19901997
61
Romanian Elections and the Evolution of Political Television
85
Party Broadcasts and Effects on Hungarian Elections since 1990
113
Elections in the New Yugoslavia TV Coverage and Equal Access
131
Russian Television Political Advertising and the Development of a New Democracy
147
Television and Electoral Success in Turkey
171
PartyCentered Campaigning and the Rise of the Political Advertising Spot in Greece
187
The Role of Media in the Elections in the Czech Republic
207
Comparing and Contrasting the Styles and Effects of Political Advertising in European Democracies
219
About the Authors
237
Index
241
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Pagina 14 - ARTICLE 10 (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.
Pagina 12 - The Union shall respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law.
Pagina 14 - Being resolved as the Governments of European countries which are likeminded and have a common heritage of political traditions, ideals, freedom and the rule of law to take the first steps for the collective enforcement of certain of the Rights stated in the Universal Declaration...
Pagina 12 - For that purpose the Court draws inspiration from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States and from the guidelines supplied by international treaties common to the Member States and from the guidelines supplied by international treaties for the protection of human rights on which the Member States have collaborated...
Pagina 15 - Such an undertaking cannot be successfully accomplished unless it is grounded in the principle of pluralism, of which the State is the ultimate guarantor. This observation is especially valid in relation to audiovisual media, whose programmes are often broadcast very widely.
Pagina 14 - Convention set up a system of enforcement of the obligations entered into by Contracting States. Three institutions were entrusted with this responsibility: the European Commission of Human Rights...
Pagina 15 - The High Contracting Parties undertake to hold free elections at reasonable intervals by secret ballot, under conditions which ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature.
Pagina 12 - ... ensures. For that purpose the Court draws inspiration from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States and from the guidelines supplied by international treaties for the protection of human rights on which the Member States have collaborated or of which they are signatories (see, in particular, the judgment in Case C-4/73 Noldv Commission [1974] ECR 491, paragraph 13).
Pagina 12 - Court has consistently held, fundamental rights form an integral part of the general principles, of law, the observance of which it ensures.

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