Media and Governance: Exploring the Role of News Media in Complex Systems of Governance

How Do The Media Relate To And Report On Complex Systems Of Government? How Do The Various Governance Actors Respond To The Media And What Are The Effects On Their Policies? This Book Considers The Impact Of Media-related Factors On Governance, Policy, Public Accountability And The Attribution Of Blame For Failures. Introduction: Entangling And Disentangling Governance And The Media / Thomas Schillemans And Jon Pierre -- Governance And The Media: Exploring The Linkages / B. Guy Peters -- Media And Public Accountability: Typology And Research Agenda / Sandra Jacobs And Thomas Schillemans -- Political Control Or Legitimacy Deficit? Bureaucracies'' Symbolic Responses To Bottom-up Public Pressure / Saar Alon-barkat And Sharon Gilad -- Mediatised Local Government: Social Media Activity And Media Strategies Among Local Government Officials 1989-2010 / Monika Djerf-pierre And Jon Pierre -- Fighting Or Fumbling With Beast? The Mediatisation Of Public Sector Agencies In Australia And The Netherlands / Thomas Schillemans -- The Mediatisation Of University Governance: A Theoretical And Empirical Exploration Of Some Side Effects / Andres Friedrichsmeier And Frank Marcinkowski -- Managing Commercialized Media Attention In Complex Governance Networks: Positive And Negative Effects On Network Performance / Erik Hans Klijn -- Over-responsibilised And Over-blamed: Elected Actors In Media Reporting On Network Governance. A Comparative Analysis In Eight European Metropolitan Areas / Karin Hasler, Daniel Kubler, Anna Christmann And Frank Marcinkowski. Edited By Thomas Schillemans, Jon Pierre. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.