Post-Communist Institution-Building and Media Control

dc.contributor.authorRyabinska, Natalya
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-23T22:51:33Z
dc.date.available2021-02-23T22:51:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis study uses an interdisciplinary perspective to shed light on Ukraine’s continuous problems with media independence, which to date have not allowed Ukraine to become a country with a truly free media: since Ukraine’s independence in 1991 its media have consistently remained only “partly free.”1 The approach proposed in the paper combines theoretical tools of post-communist media studies with advancements in political science research in regime change and state-building to explore the continuities and changes in the institutional environment for the media in post-communist new democracies. The approach is applied to analyze two cases of post-communist media change, both problematic to explain within the framework of media studies alone: the case of incomplete media transformation in a hybrid regime (Ukraine) and the incident of backsliding in independent media in an advanced new democracy (Hungary). The paper is structured as follows: I first present the shortcomings in the way institutions, or more specifically the institutional environment for media freedom, were previously approached in post-communist media studies. I then propose a more advanced approach based on theories and concepts originating from comparativepolitics studies of regime change and state and institution-building. I apply this approach to analyze the institutional environment for the media in Ukraine. Next, I explore the case of a radical reconstruction of media-related institutions in Hungary after Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party came to power in 2010.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRyabinska N. Post-Communist Institution-Building and Media Control / Natalya Ryabinska // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2020. - № 7. - P. 73-100.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj219658.2020-7.73-100
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19574
dc.language.isoenuk_UA
dc.relation.sourceKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal.en_US
dc.statusfirst publisheduk_UA
dc.subjectPost-communisten_US
dc.subjectmediaen_US
dc.subjectenabling environmenten_US
dc.subjectinstitution-buildingen_US
dc.subjectUkraineen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titlePost-Communist Institution-Building and Media Controlen_US
dc.typeArticleuk_UA
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