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Europe’s Parallel Media Universe: Cross-national analysis of populist media oppression in the EU

Bajnoczki, Csongor

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
This research is to show that populist parties in the European Union attempt to oppress the traditional established media as soon as they come in to power. The multiple regressions test the hypothesis of a negative relationship between the political power of populist parties and degree of media freedom. For the assessment and clarification of the relationship between the level of media freedom and the political power of populist parties, political rights and civil liberties country scores from Freedom House’s Freedom in the World reports, GDP per capita from World Bank, corruption perception indexes from Transparency International, and Grigorii V. Golosov’s formula of effective number of parties are included as control variables. The proposed hypothesis enjoys empirical support in the context of Eastern Europe and both quantitative and qualitative data demonstrate that populist parties seek to tame the media as soon as they get the power to do so.
Liam Anderson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Carlos Costa, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lee Hannah, Jr., Ph.D. (Committee Member)
88 p.

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  • Bajnoczki, C. (2018). Europe’s Parallel Media Universe: Cross-national analysis of populist media oppression in the EU [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527895414688351

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bajnoczki, Csongor. Europe’s Parallel Media Universe: Cross-national analysis of populist media oppression in the EU. 2018. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527895414688351.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bajnoczki, Csongor. "Europe’s Parallel Media Universe: Cross-national analysis of populist media oppression in the EU." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1527895414688351

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)