Promoting the Idea of Broadcast Deregulation: An Alternative View of the Distribution of Power in the Communications Policy-Making Process

Conventional accounts of the communications policy-making process in the United States tend to focus on the struggles over proposed changes to specific regulations. They give us blow-by-blow descriptions of the activities of the Federal Communications Commission, Congress, the courts, the White House, and various regulated industries. But they rarely offer any explanation of the mechanisms by which the policy agenda is set and the range of available policy options is defined. The work reported here asks why conventional accounts pay so little attention to these processes and argues that a better understanding of the distribution of power in the communications policy-making system will result if we include in our analysis the activities of organizations which tend to shape the terms of the policy debate.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Brown, Duncan Horner

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rowland, Willard D., Jr.

• Political Science, Public Administration
• Mass Communications

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8908631

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77304