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Comparative Political Communications: Common Frameworks or Babelian Confusion?

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Hallin Daniel C. and Mancini Paolo, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, Communication, Society, and Politics, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 342pp., hardback, £50, ISBN 978-0-5218-3535-0; paperback, £21.99, ISBN 978-0-5215-4308-8.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

Pippa Norris
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Government and Opposition , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , 2009 , pp. 321 - 340
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