Communications Policy:
The Major Textbooks

 

1. General (Provocative Introduction)

Cairncross, Frances, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

 

Kelly Kevin, New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical strategies for a Connected World, Penguin, USA, 1999.

2. The Three Major Subjects of the Class

Telecommunications

Internet

Media
Eliassen K. and Sjovaag M., European Telecommunications Liberalisation Routledge, 1999 Gerald Sussman Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age, Sage Publications, 1997. McQuail Denis and Siune Karen (eds), Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration and Commerce, Sage Publications, 1998.
Melody H. William (ed) Telecom Reform Technical University of Denmark Press, 1997 Owen M. Bruce The Internet Challenge to Television, Harvard University Press, 1999.

 Hoffmann-Riem Wolfgang, Regulating the Media, The Guilford Press, London, 1996.
Dutton, William, Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999. Schiller, Dan Digital Capitalism, MIT Press, 1999.

 Humphreys, J. Peter Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe, Manchester Univarstiy Press, 1996
Schon Donald, Sanyal Bish and Mitchell J. William, High Technology and Low-Income Communities, MIT PRESS, Cambridge Mass, 1999 Kenneth Thompson, Media and Cultural Regulation , Open Univarstiy and Sage, 1997
Siune Karen and Truetzschler Wolfgang (eds), Dynamics of Media Politics, Sage Publications, London, 1992

 

3. The theoretical perspectives

International
& Comparative
Political Economy

Comparative Public Policy &
Interest intermediation

Public Administration - Regulation

Gilpin, Robert, The Political Economy of International Relations, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987

 Dunleavy, Patrick and O'Leary Brendan Theories of the state : the politics of liberal democracy, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987 Majone, Giandomenico (ed), Regulating Europe, Routledge, London and New York, 1996
James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine, Theories of Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992

 Olson, Mancur, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1965 Bishop Matthew, Kay John and Mayer Colin (eds), The Regulatory Challenge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995
Evans P., Reueschemeyer, D. and Skocpol T. (eds), Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.
Carnoy Martin, The State and Political Theory, Princton University Press, Princeton, 1984.

 

 

4. And you may also want to consider methodological issues

Ragin Charles, Constructing Social Research, Pine Forge Press, Thousands Oaks, CA, 1994.

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