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Media and Communications Policy Making

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This chapter explores the roles, processes and issues addressed in regional trade agreements and multinational governmental policy making through regional governmental organizations worldwide. It shows that the nature of regional policy making differs depending upon the needs and structure of regional governance and communications systems. The chapter provides a model for analyzing regional policy making and the influences on its processes. It discusses different approaches, such as setting policy frameworks, trade agreements and joint actions for technical cooperation and to support communication infrastructures, and major regional governance initiatives.

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Picard, R.G. (2020). Regional Policy Making. In: Media and Communications Policy Making. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35173-1_6

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