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Public Communication in Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Statist Regimes: A Comparative Glance

Author(s): Chalaby, Jean K.
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This article addresses the following issue: how distinctive was the political communication system that prevailed during the de Gaulle presidency? How democratic was it? To this end, this essay places the Frenchpolitical communication system in a comparative perspective and constructs a typology that contrasts different models, placing the emphasison the ideology and elite mindset that underpin them. These typescomprise totalitarianism, authoritarianism, statism and liberalism. This article makes two main arguments. Regarding France, it shows that statism, particularly since the de Gaulle presidency, has had a lasting influence on the country’s communication system. More generally, it isargued that political communication systems across the world remain fundamentally different from each other, and that the democratic modelis better and freer than non-democratic ones.


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Chalaby, Jean K.: Public Communication in Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Statist Regimes: A Comparative Glance. In: Postoutenko, Kirill: Totalitarian Communication – Hierarchies, Codes and Messages. Bielefeld: transcript 2010, S. 67-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12402.
@INCOLLECTION{Chalaby2010,
 author = {Chalaby, Jean K.},
 title = {Public Communication in Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Statist Regimes: A Comparative Glance},
 year = 2010,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12402}",
 editor = {Postoutenko, Kirill},
 address = {Bielefeld},
 booktitle = {Totalitarian Communication – Hierarchies, Codes and Messages},
 pages = {67--89},
 publisher = {transcript},
}
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