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External Pressures through Appointments

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The use of appointments is a time-honoured device to achieve political compliance. In several Western democracies it has been — and in some is still — used, in the government bureaucracy. It is no less popular in broadcasting corporations, where it has been applied with respect to the boards, their chairmen and the directors-general.

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© 1987 Eva Etzioni-Halevy

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Etzioni-Halevy, E. (1987). External Pressures through Appointments. In: National Broadcasting Under Siege. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09077-8_7

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