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Table of Contents: “…Wright -- Voter participation : records galore this time, but what about next time? / Thomas E. Patterson -- Media, endorsements, and the 2008 primaries / Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Bruce W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther -- The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert -- Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd -- The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel -- Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo -- The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson -- Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. …”