"Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Denis McQuail, 1
1 Austria / Josef Trappel, 4
2 Belgium / Els De Bens, 16
3 The Czech Republic / Jan Culik, 31
4 Denmark / Frands Mortensen, 43
5 Finland / Marina Osterlund-Karinkanta, 54
6 France / Jean-Marie Charon, 65
7 Germany / Hans J. Kleinsteuber, 78
8 Greece / Stylianos Papathanossopoulos, 91
9 Hungary / Balazs Kiss, 103
10 Ireland / Wolfgang Truetzschler, 115
11 Italy / Gianpietro Mazzoleni, 126
12 Luxembourg / Mario Hirsch, 139
13 The Netherlands / Kees Brants, 145
14 Norway / Helge Ostbye, 157
15 Poland / Karol Jakubowicz, 169
16 Portugal / Manuel Pinto and Helena Sousa, 180
17 Russia / Elena Vartanova, 191
18 Slovakia / Andrej Skolkay, 204
19 Slovenia / Vida Zei, 214
20 Spain / Rosario de Mateo, 224
21 Sweden / Olof Hulten 236
22 Switzerland / Werner A. Meier, 248
23 The United Kingdom / Jeremy Tunstall, 261