Media politics and democracy in Palestine : political culture, pluralism, and the Palestinian authority

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Media politics and democracy in Palestine : political culture, pluralism, and the Palestinian authority

Amal Jamal

Sussex Academic Press, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-204) and index

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Description

In opposition to the PA, liberal as well as Islamic social forces promote policies of protest and resistance, through media tools, against the authoritarian policies of the PA. The media is viewed as a public sphere in which these forces compete. Media institutions play an important role in setting the parameters of communication in processes of state building: promoting public debate and forming public spheres influence the modes of statecivil society relations. Combining concepts of political communication with social movement theory, the author examines the extent to which public opinion plays a role in determining the character of the political regime. The rising tension between the Palestinian Authority's attempts to deepen its control over society and the reaction to this development by opposition groups informs the analysis of each civil institution: the role of NGOs, the Islamic movement, the women's movement and Palestinian feminism, and the liberal-democratic intellectual elite, are all assessed through their media institutions and communication policies, to reveal the character of the emerging Palestinian public sphere.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: State Formation, Symbolic Power and Political Hegemony
  • Institutionalising the Political System and the Politics of Control
  • Deconstructing Autocracy: NGOs and the Politics of Contention
  • The Constitutive National Press: Mechanisms of the Palestinian Media Regime
  • The Deconstruction of Gender Regime: The Womens Movements and the Predicament of Equal Citizenship
  • Framing Authenticity: Religious Discourse and the Islamist Media
  • Conclusion: Occupation, State Formation and Democratic Prospects
  • Index.

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