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more information - www.cambridge.org/9781107018440 MediaCommercializationandAuthoritarianRuleinChina Inmostliberaldemocracies,commercializedmediaistakenforgranted, but in many authoritarian regimes, the introduction of market forces in the media represents a radical break from the past, with uncer- tainpoliticalandsocialimplications.InMediaCommercializationand AuthoritarianRuleinChina,DanielaStockmannarguesthatthecon- sequences of media marketization depend on the institutional design of the state. In one-party regimes such as China, market-based media promoteregimestabilityratherthandestabilizingauthoritarianismor bringingaboutdemocracy.ByanalyzingtheChinesemedia,Stockmann ties trends of market liberalization in China to other authoritarian regimesintheMiddleEast,NorthAfrica,Sub-SaharanAfrica,andthe post-Sovietregion.Drawingonin-depthinterviewswithChinesejour- nalistsandpropagandaofficialsaswellasmorethan2,000newspaper articles,experiments,andpublicopiniondatasets,thisbooklinkscen- sorshipamongjournalistswithpatternsofmediaconsumptionandthe media’seffectsonpublicopinion. DanielaStockmannisAssistantProfessorofPoliticalScienceatLeiden University.Her researchon politicalcommunicationand publicopin- ion in China has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PoliticalCommunication,TheChinaQuarterly,andtheChineseJour- nal of Communication, among others. Her 2006 conferencepaper on the Chinese media and public opinion received an award in Political CommunicationfromtheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation. Communication,SocietyandPolitics Editors W.LanceBennett,UniversityofWashington RobertM.Entman,TheGeorgeWashingtonUniversity EditorialAdvisoryBoard ScottAlthaus,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign LarryM.Bartels,VanderbiltUniversity JayG.Blumler,Emeritus,UniversityofLeeds MichaelX.DellaCarpini,UniversityofPennsylvania DorisA.Graber,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago ReginaLawrence,UniversityofTexasatAustin PaoloMancini,UniversityofPerugia PippaNorris,HarvardUniversity BarbaraPfetsch,FreeUniversity,Berlin PhilipSchlesinger,UniversityofStirling GadiWolfsfeld,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem JohnZaller,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Politicsandrelationsamongindividualsinsocietiesacrosstheworldarebeing transformed by new technologies for targeting individuals and sophisticated methods for shaping personalized messages. The new technologies challenge boundaries of many kinds – between news, information, entertainment, and advertising;betweenmedia,withthearrivaloftheWorldWideWeb;andeven betweennations.Communication,SocietyandPoliticsprobesthepoliticaland social impacts of these new communication systems in national, comparative, andglobalperspective. OtherBooksintheSeries Eva Anduiza, Michael James Jensen, and Laia Jorba, eds., Digital Media and PoliticalEngagementWorldwide C.EdwinBaker,MediaConcentrationandDemocracy:WhyOwnershipMat- ters C.EdwinBaker,Media,Markets,andDemocracy W.LanceBennettandRobertM.Entman,eds.,MediatedPolitics:Communi- cationintheFutureofDemocracy BruceBimber,InformationandAmericanDemocracy:TechnologyintheEvo- lutionofPoliticalPower SerieslistcontinuesfollowingtheIndex. Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China DANIELA STOCKMANN cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107018440 (cid:2)C DanielaStockmann2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Stockmann,Daniela. MediacommercializationandauthoritarianruleinChina/DanielaStockmann. p. cm.–(Communication,societyandpolitics) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-01844-0(hardback) 1.Governmentandthepress–China. 2.Journalism–Politicalaspects–China. 3.Newspaper publishing–Economicaspects–China. 4.Pressandpolitics–China. 5.Freedomofthe press–China. I.Title. pn4748.c5s76 2012 302.230951–dc23 2012021708 isbn978-1-107-01844-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsfor externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnotguarantee thatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. To my parents “It takes an awful long time to not write a book.” Douglas Adams
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