Political Will and Media Law
A Poland Case Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12148809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damian Guzek (0000-0002-2780-5656, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland, corresponding author), Agnieszka Grzesiok-Horosz (0000-0002-9810-4216, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1245-1262 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Politics and Societies and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-3254 • E-ISSN: 1533-8371 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08883254211049514 |
| OpenAlex | W3204651812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of media freedom. These are, in turn, (a) the takeover of public media by influencing the staffing of media companies, (b) introducing a new, completely politicized body into the legal order, which duplicates the already existing and partially politicized media authority, and (c) exerting economic and legal pressure on the media independent of the authorities, so that they can be taken over by state-owned companies or businessmen favoring the authorities. As a whole, this decline in media freedom can be viewed as a strategy that antagonizes society
Business · Element (criminal law · Freedom of the press · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Staffing · State (computer science · Intellectual Property Rights and Media · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish Law and Legal System
Mediatization Cartography
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Social media, quality of democracy, and citizen satisfaction with democracy in central and eastern Europe
Illiberal spectatorship – the disfigurement of citizenship in Hungary and Poland
After the Takeover
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |