Daily Democracy
Politics, Media, and Democratic Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23204497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ainius Lašas (0000-0002-8306-4469, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 137-153 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Media and Politics in New Democracies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747536.003.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W1799167590 |
| ISBN | 9780198747536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The analysis of popular political values provides a key for understanding the day-to-day functioning of democracies. This chapter argues for the relevance of culture at both mass and political elite levels, with media functioning as a crucial interlocutor between the two. The author examines and compares the democratic cultures of old and new EU member states in order to assess their resilience to competing informal practices, arguably one of the most serious threats to liberal democracies, and more generally to demonstrate why culture matters for analysing the relationship between media and politics. This chapter demonstrates that Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries do not fall into a single and unique post-communist cultural category, but are distributed along a continuum encompassing older EU democracies. However, in the ‘average’ CEE democracy, informal rules and practices compete with formal rules and laws in defining everyday interactions between political, business, and media elites.
Democracy · Media studies · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political theory and Gramsci
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |