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Domestic Policy Making

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This chapter reveals how media and communications policy is created in differing national environments. It provides a model of influences on domestic media policy that can be applied to both democratic and autocratic countries and to situations where special interests—including business and state interests—exercise unusual influence. The model addresses form of government, strength of state influence on media/communications systems, primary policy rationales, nature of policy consultations and outcome-skewing factors that affect policy. It explores the general processes of domestic policy making in various systems and forms of government, exploring the scope of policy, the primary locations of policymaking, the role of stakeholder interests and the extent to which activist groups can participate in the processes.

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Picard, R.G. (2020). Domestic 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_7

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