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Scholars of international relations and international communications view the extent of media freedom from country to country as a key comparative indicator either by itself or in correlation with other indices of national political and economic development. This indicator serves as a bellwether for gauging the health and spread of democracy.
Historical Guide to World Media Freedom is a new reference from CQ Press that brings together comprehensive historical data on media freedom since World War II. It provides consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present. The work also includes country-by country summaries, analyses of historical and regional trends in media freedom, and extensive reliability analyses of media freedom measures.
The key information provided is designed to help researchers connect these historical measures of media freedom to Freedom House's annual Freedom of the Press survey release, enabling them to extend their studies back before the 1980s when Freedom House began compiling global press freedom measures.
The reference covers three major areas
-introductory chapters discuss the theoretical premises behind the nature and importance of media freedom, operational definitions of media freedom, the challenges of compiling reliable measures, historical trends, and the challenges of coding for media freedom in a way that ensures consistency for comparison.
-the heart of the book includes alphabetical, country-by-country summaries of the ebb and flow of media freedom paired with national media freedom measures over time. This is essential reading for researchers to connect the dots in understanding global media freedom.
-concluding material provides a detailed discussion of the historical patterns in media freedom, consideration of how media freedom tracks with other cross-national indicators, and discussion of the reliability of the information available on media freedom.
Accessible to both students and scholars alike, this groundbreaking new reference will be essential to collections in political science, international studies, and journalism and communications.
Switzerland: 1948–2012
Switzerland: 1948–2012
Switzerland Year by Year | ||
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Year | Media | Government |
1948 | Free | Democracy |
1949 | Free | Democracy |
1950 | Free | Democracy |
1951 | Free | Democracy |
1952 | Free | Democracy |
1953 | Free | Democracy |
1954 | Free | Democracy |
1955 | Free | Democracy |
1956 | Free | Democracy |
1957 | Free | Democracy |
1958 | Free | Democracy |
1959 | Free | Democracy |
1960 | Free | Democracy |
1961 | Free | Democracy |
1962 | Free | Democracy |
1963 | Free | Democracy |
1964 | Free | Democracy |
1965 | Free | Democracy |
1966 | Free | Democracy |
1967 | Free | Democracy |
1968 | Free | Democracy |
1969 | Free | Democracy |
1970 | Free | Democracy |
1971 | Free | Democracy |
1972 | Free | Democracy |
1973 | Free | Democracy |
1974 | Free | Democracy |
1975 | Free | Democracy |
1976 | Free | Democracy |
1977 | Free | Democracy |
1978 | Free | Democracy |
1979 | Free | Democracy |
1980 | Free | Democracy |
1981 | Free | Democracy |
1982 | Free | Democracy |
1983 | Free | Democracy |
1984 | Free | Democracy |
1985 | Free | Democracy |
1986 | Free | Democracy |
1987 | Free | Democracy |
1988 | Free | Democracy |
1989 | Free | Democracy |
1990 | Free | Democracy |
1991 | Free | Democracy |
1992 | Free | Democracy |
1993 | Free | Democracy |
1994 | Free | Democracy |
1995 | Free | Democracy |
1996 | Free | Democracy |
1997 | Free | Democracy |
1998 | Free | Democracy |
1999 | Free | Democracy |
2000 | Free | Democracy |
2001 | Free | Democracy |
2002 | Free | Democracy |
2003 | Free | Democracy |
2004 | Free | Democracy |
2005 | Free | Democracy |
2006 | Free | Democracy |
2007 | Free | Democracy |
2008 | Free | Democracy |
2009 | Free | Democracy |
2010 | Free | Democracy |
2011 | Free | Democracy |
2012 | Free | Democracy |
Media Freedom History in a Nutshell
- A small and linguistically diverse media market presents challenges
- A complex licensing and funding scheme supports much of the domestically produced media
- Switzerland is dominated by government supported public service broadcasting
- As of 2011, there were seventy-nine daily newspapers, seventy-five of them were paid-for daily newspapers, with a total average circulation per issue of 2,978,000 (World Association of Newspaper's 2012 World Newspaper Trends)
- As of 2012, about 85 percent of the Swiss had Internet access (International Telecommunication Union's 2012 ICT Indicators Database)
In Brief
Switzerland is one of the last remaining European countries that is not a member of the European Union. Long a bastion of neutrality and independence, media freedom is enshrined in the Swiss constitution and has been ...
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