Maria Michalis

Governing European Communications (eBook, ePUB)

From Unification to Coordination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The liberalization of communications markets, especially from the 1980s onward, has witnessed increased regulatory activity within but also above the national state. By examining the European case-concentrating on the European Union, the most advanced example of regionalism-Governing European Communications enhances understanding of the trend toward above-the-national-state regulation, its, drivers and its limitations. Analyzing in detail the origins, dynamics, and evolution of European-level communications governance in the postwar era, Michalis offers a single, comprehensive, and up-to-date account of telecommunications and television policies and regulation and their technological convergence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739155714
• Artikelnr.: 39419024

Autorenporträt

Maria Michalis is principal lecturer and course leader in the School of Media, Arts & Design at the University of Westminster, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Origins of European Governance in Communications: The formative
years (late 1940s - late 1960s)
Chapter 3. The Crisis Years: National capital and the search for European
solutions and identity (late 1960s - late 1970s)
Chapter 4. Defensive Europeanization: Industrial policy moves to Europe
(late 1970s - mid-1980s)
Chapter 5. Liberalization and Re-regulation: The high peak of European
governance? (mid-1980s - late 1990s)
Chapter 6. Competitiveness, Knowledge Economy and Technological
Convergence: Toward policy coordination (late 1990s - early 2007)
Chapter 7. Conclusions