Bulletin n. 3/2006
December 2006
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Seethaler Josef, Melischek Gabriele
    Die Pressekonzentration in Österreich im europäischen Vergleich
    in Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 2006/4 ,  2006 ,  337-360
    PRESS CONCENTRATION IN AUSTRIA: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES This article examines the phenomenon of press concentration in the context of a detailed analysis of the Austrian media system within a European perspective. The theoretical framework, based on Hallin and Mancini’s ‘models of media and politics’, has been developed to provide a comparative analysis of media systems in liberal democracies of Western Europe and North America. According to the democratic corporatist model prevailing in North and Central European states (separate from the polarized pluralist model and the liberal model), there are, above all, two central determining structure characteristics, each overlapping one another: a long period of coexistence of a party press and a mass-circulation press, leading to a strong position of the daily papers on the advertising and audience market, and the coexistence of political parallelism in the media and a high degree of professionalization. Both characteristics can be proven to a great extent for the Austrian media system. However, the degree of press concentration, as observed in Austria, must be seen as a danger to external diversity, another essential characteristic of the democratic corporatist model. The effects of a recent trend towards localization - accompanied with an above average decreasing interest in political information in comparison to the rest of Europe - are not yet able to be estimated.
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