The prime minister-media Nexus : centralization logic and application / Karl Magnus Johansson.
Johansson, Karl Magnus, author.
2022
JA85 .H64 2022
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Title The prime minister-media Nexus : centralization logic and application / Karl Magnus Johansson.
Author Johansson, Karl Magnus, author.
ISBN 9783031121524 electronic book
303112152X electronic book
3031121511
9783031121517
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12152-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-12152-4 doi
Call Number JA85 .H64 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.014
Summary This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers. It aims at an understanding of how media has caused institutional effects in government, as well as at advancing a unified theory of government communication. The author develops a logic of centralization and applies it to one case, Sweden. Government communication has been institutionalized, tightened and centralized with the prime minister and has changed irreversibly. Analysis of how the government communication system has evolved, mainly in its institutional structures, suggests that the shift to centralization arose more out of necessity than choice. For prime ministers most of this is about finding ways to ensure that the entire government respond to media uniformly. As governments face a set of functional demands from media, different kinds of media, uniformity has been a paramount objective. Nevertheless, this development involves shifting dynamics of intra-executive relations and a shift of power away from ministries to the prime ministers office; the apex of political power. The prime minister has been empowered at the expense of ministers through the concentration of power and resources to the executive centre. That is partly because of media, which reinforces political hierarchies. That and the centralized control of government news in turn raises further questions about democratic governance and the nature of modern-day governing. Karl Magnus Johansson is Affiliate Professor of Political Science at Sodertorn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Oct 19th, 2022).
Series Palgrave studies in political leadership series.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031121524
Print version: 9783031121517
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1. Introductory Framework
2. Theoretical Explanations of Prime Minister Empowerment: Toward a Unified Theory of Centralization
3. The Swedish Experience: Reinforcement of Central Government and the Significance of Media
4. Conclusions.

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