This book offers new and compelling insight into the orientations that shape the cultures of political communication in nine Western democracies. It is a truly comparative account of the views of 2500 political elites and media elites between Helsinki and Madrid on their relationship and their exchanges.

This book offers new and compelling insight into the orientations that shape the cultures of political communication in nine Western democracies. It is a truly comparative account of the views of 2500 political elites and media elites between Helsinki and Madrid on their relationship and their exchanges.

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Blind Spots in the Analysis of the Media Politics Relationship in Europe; Barbara Pfetsch PART I 2. The Idea of Political Communication Cultures and its Empirical Desiderates; Barbara Pfetsch 3. Contexts of the Media Politics Relationship: Country Selection and Grouping; Barbara Pfetsch, Peter Maurer, Eva Mayerhöffer , Tom Moring and Stephanie Schwab Cammarano 4. Methods and Challenges of Comparative Surveys of Political Communication Elites; Peter Maurer and Miika Vähämaa 5. National or Professional? Types of Political Communication Cultures across Europe; Barbara Pfetsch, Eva Mayerhöffer and Tom Moring PART II 6. Public Opinion Polls as Input Factor of Political Communication; Eva Mayerhöffer and Aleksander Sašo Slacek Brlek 7. Democratic Demands on the Media; Nicklas Håkansson and Eva Mayerhöffer 8. Politicized Media? Partisanship and Collusion in the European Context; Anders Esmark 9. Media Power in Politics; Günther Lengauer, Patrick Donges and Fritz Plasser 10. Media Logics and Changes in News Reporting; Patrick Donges, Nicklas H?kansson and Günther Lengauer 11. Public Agenda Setting between Media Logic and Political Logic; Anders Esmark and Eva Mayerhöffer 12. Political Communication Roles Inside Out; Anders Esmark and Mark Blach-Ørsten 13. Distant North – Conflictive South: Patterns of Interaction and Conflict; Stephanie Schwab Cammarano and Juan Díez Medrano 14. European Political Communication Cultures and Democracy; Tom Moring and Barbara Pfetsch References Index