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Croatia’s HRT to get new boss…sometime

Legal uncertainty about procedure for replacing PSB boss. So much for the quality of the draftsmanship of media legislation, the object of much comment from EU ‘experts’. (Of course, the idea of eliminating interpretative uncertainty is chimeric).

Posted 25 February 2007 † Chris § mirko galic § appointments ‡ Comments (0)

Countries that need to fix their media systems

I’ve been doing some research for a term paper on comparing democracies. Using Coppedge and Reinicke’s Polyarchy and Contestation data-set, I’ve identified those countries which would be perfect polyarchies were it not for their media systems, where government information is privileged. They are:

Albania
Botswana
Cape Verde
Croatia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guyana
Honduras
Israel and the occupied territories
Kiribati
Mauritius
Mexico
Namibia
Panama
Ukraine

These countries are doing something right. That’s […]

Posted 28 December 2006 † Chris § freedom of information § panama § polyarchy § democracy § coppedge § reinicke § albania § ukraine § mediaset ‡ Comments (0)