A Polyvalent Media Policy in the Enlarged European Union

An impressive work of media and communication scholarship, this meticulouslyresearched book provides comprehensive and authoritative treatment to the developmentof European Union media policy, in all its complexity and competingrationales; it offers a study of EU enlargement and conditionality; and it examinesin detail the EU's impact on the new member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), insightfully exploring themes such as content regulation and the promotion of European works, media ownership and media pluralism, the independence ofregulatory agencies, and public service media. Building on a state of the art reviewof existing scholarship on media and communications policy, and offering its ownperspective on comparative approaches to the subject, it makes an original and informed contribution both to theory building and to empirical research. It shouldbe a standard point of reference for the academic, stakeholder and policy communitiesin this field. Peter Humphreys, Professor of Politics, The University of Manchester, UK

Beata Klimkiewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland