Party system and media in Poland – dependences and relations

Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska

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Transition toward democracy is a fundamental phase for development of political parallelism between media and political systems. Parliamentarization of political parties is an effect of democratization in Poland and the Central Europe. Mass media are campaigning tools for objects of political competition and for this reason political parties and candidates have a tendency to media instrumentalization in communication with voters. This is easy with public media but not with private media apart from ideological media, such as Radio Maryja.

KEYWORDS

political party, political parallelism, media bias, relation party–media, the adversary model, the exchange model