Deliberative Performance of Television News in Three Types of Democracy: Insights from the United States, Germany, and Russia | Zendy

Wessler Hartmut | Zendy; Rinke Eike Mark | Zendy

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Deliberative Performance of Television News in Three Types of Democracy: Insights from the United States, Germany, and Russia

Author(s) -

Wessler Hartmut,

Rinke Eike Mark

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.752

H-Index - 131

eISSN - 1460-2466

pISSN - 0021-9916

DOI - 10.1111/jcom.12115

Subject(s) - deliberation , political science , politics , deliberative democracy , democracy , power (physics) , news media , public broadcasting , public administration , law , physics , quantum mechanics

We show that television news is considerably more deliberative in established (United States, Germany) than in defective democracies (Russia) and slightly more deliberative in a power‐sharing political system (Germany) than in a power‐concentrating system (United States). We further demonstrate that public‐service channels, nonpartisan programs, and in‐depth news shows make stronger overall contributions toward deliberativeness than their respective counterparts. While national news cultures produce distinct national styles of mediated deliberation, individual channels in the United States (Fox, CNN) and Russia (REN) cut across these national patterns. The significance of deliberative media content for citizens and political elites is discussed.

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