Of Slaves and Clients. Any Future for European PBS?
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Of Slaves and Clients. Of Slaves and Clients. Any Future for European Any Future for European
PBS? PBS?
Alina Mungiu-PippidiAlina Mungiu-Pippidi
Hertie School of GovernanceHertie School of Governance
[email protected]@hertie-school.org
STATE GOVERNMENT BROADCASTING PUBLIC SPHERE
EMERGING/NATION-BUILDING
Revolutionary National mobilization. Literacy
Nationalist
AUTHORITARIAN Despotic Black propaganda; indoctrination
Compliance to rebellion
CLIENTELISTIC Particularistic Misinformation; diversion
Absent (factionalism, partitocrazia)
LIBERAL Democratic Civicmobilization
Important
• MAIN QUESTION: What explains the variation across cases of government behavior towards PB?
• MAIN THESIS: Treatment of PB is a function of political clientelism as manifested through high politicization of the state
• Clientelism = pattern of social organization in which access to social resources is controlled by patrons and delivered to clients in exchange for deference and various kinds of support.
• Particularistic and asymmetrical form of social organization, and is typically contrasted with forms of citizenship in which access to resources is based on universalistic criteria and formal equality before the law
• Greater prevalence of clientelism is connected with the late development of democracy (Hallin and Papathanassoupoulos, 2000)
• Clientelism is also an indispensable part of democracy development
A model of autonomy of PB – a A model of autonomy of PB – a parsimonious modelparsimonious model
• Clientelism/politicization of public administration
• Tradition of state interventionism/ Market liberalization
• Ideology (monetarism)
Association between performance Association between performance and politicizationand politicization
Countries Market share Government neutrality
(1-7) GCF
State exploitation (mean 4.6)Busse
No private channels
Bulgaria 14 2.4/111 8.3 126
Czech Republic 31 2.5/110 7.00 174
Estonia 16 3.5/44 1.6 14
Hungary 15 2.4/112 1.4 544
Latvia 16 2.9/83 8.7 36
Lithuania 14 2.9/81 2.4 65
Poland 44 2.5/105 4.4 322
Romania 7 2.4/113 ----- 130
Slovenia 31 3.2/62 2.1 103
Slovakia 22 2.3/116 6.00 66
Policy optionsPolicy options
1.Annihilation2.Commercialization3.Europeanization
• Is there a one size fits all solution in EU public broadcasting?
• Can Europe help by regulation create a public sphere where it is not?