This textbook focuses on how media and communications policy is made and what influences its
design. It explores the structures and processes in which policymaking takes place worldwide
the factors that determine its forms influence its elements and affect its outcomes. It
explores how to analyze policy proposals evaluate policy and use policy studies approaches to
examine policy and policymaking. Truly international in scope it lays out the variety of
political social economic and institutional influences on policy the roles of industries
and policy advocates in the processes and issues and factors that complicate effective
policymaking and skew policy outcomes. This textbook is a valuable resource for advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate students.
