Natascha Just and Manuel Puppis are senior research and teaching associates at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

• Chapter 1: Introduction – Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis Chapter 2: Communication Policy Research: Looking Back, Moving Forward – Natascha Just & Manuel PuppisPART I: NEW THEORIESChapter 3: Prospects and Pitfalls of Douglass North’s New Institutional Economics Approach for Global Media Policy Research – Jan LoisenChapter 4: ‘It’s the Idea, Stupid!’ How Ideas Challenge Broadcasting Liberalization – Matthias KunzlerChapter 5: The Accountability and Legitimacy of Regulatory Agencies in the Communication Sector – Manuel Puppis & Martino MaggettiChapter 6: Change and Divergence in Regulatory Regimes: A Comparative Study of Product Placement Regulation – Avshalom GinosarChapter 7: Technologies as Institutions: Rethinking the Role of Technology in Media Governance Constellations – Christian KatzenbachChapter 8: Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism: A New Paradigm for Media Policy Research? – Ulrike KlingerPART II: NEW METHODS Chapter 9: A Political Scientist’s Contribution to the Comparative Study of Media Systems in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini – Peter HumphreysChapter 10: What We Talk about When We Talk about Document Analysis - Kari Karppinen & Hallvard MoeChapter 11: Qualitative Network Analysis: An Approach to Communication Policy Studies – Maria Löblich & Senta Pfaff-Rudiger Chapter 12: Towards a Media Policy Process Analysis Model and Its Methodological Implications – Hilde Van den BulckPART III: NEW SUBJECTSCONVERGENCEChapter 13: Battle of the Paradigms: Defining the Object and Objectives of Media/Communication Policy  – Karol JakubowiczChapter 14: Content Control and Digital Television: Policy, Technology and Industry – Andrew T. Kenyon, Julian Thomas & Jason BoslandChapter 15: Regulating and Monitoring Online Activities of Public Service Broadcasters: The Case of Switzerland – Natascha Just, Michael Latzer & Florian SaurweinSTATE AIDChapter 16: Conditional Access for Public Service Broadcasting to New Media Platforms: EU State-Aid Policy vis-à-vis Public Service Broadcasting – the Dutch Case – Jo Bardoel & Marit VochtelooChapter 17: Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the ‘Main Characters’ – Lucia BellucciChapter 18: New Approaches to the Development of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Europe? The Evolution of European Union Policy for Next-Generation Networks – Seamus SimpsonPARTICIPATION, POWER & THE ROLE OF GENDERChapter 19: Public Service Television in European Union Countries: Old Issues, New Challenges in the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ – Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Vaclav Stetka & Miklós SukosdChapter 20: Civil Society and Media Governance: A Participatory Approach – Pietro Rossi & Werner A. MeierChapter 21: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: Unfolding Gender Conscious Research for Communication and Cultural Policy Theory – Katharine Sarikakis

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