Mediatization of politics : understanding the transformation of western democracies / edited by Frank Esser, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Jesper Strömbäck, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Mediatization of Politics: Towards a Theoretical Framework / Frank Esser -- Part II. Foundations: 2. Mediatization and Democracy / Jay G. Blumler; 3. Mediatization and Political Populism / Gianpietro Mazzoleni; 4. Mediatization and New Media / Winfried Schulz; 5. Mediatization and Political Autonomy: A Systems Approach / Frank Marcinkowski and Adrian Steiner -- Part III. Dimensions of Mediatization: 6. Mediation of Political Realities: Media as Crucial Sources of Information / Adam Shehata and Jesper Strömbäck; 7. Mediatization at the Structural Level: Independence from Politics, Dependence on the Market / Lindards Udris and Jens Lucht; 8. Mediatization of News: The Role of Journalistic Framing / Claes H. de Vreese; 9 .Mediatization of Campaign Coverage: Metacoverage of US Elections / Paul D'Angelo, Florin Büchel and Frank Esser; 10. Mediatization of Political Organizations: Changing Parties and Interest Groups? / Patrick Donges and Otfried Jarren; 11. Mediatization and Political Agenda-Setting: Changing Issue Priorities? / Peter Van Aelst, Gunnar Thesen, Stefan Walgrave and Rens Vliegenthart -- Part IV. Conclusion: 12. A Paradigm in the Making: Lessons for the Future of Mediatization Research / Frank Esser and Jesper Strömbäck.

"The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes. As politics becomes increasingly mediatized, the role of the media becomes more important in political processes, overlaying and subsuming political logic. This affects not only the presentational aspects of politics but, it is feared, also policymaking processes. This may in turn have far-reaching implications as to how well democracy works. Against this background, Mediatization of Politics brings together state-of-the-art chapters written by leading scholars in the field of political communication. It synthesizes relevant concepts and arguments, identifies core components of the mediatization paradigm, and sets the agenda for subsequent work on the changing relationship between media and politics in general, and on the mediatization of politics in particular"-- Provided by publisher.