Publication details
Political TV Debates in the Czech Republic - from Bread Snacks to Sound Bites
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Contemporary European Studies |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | media; politics; tv debates; political communication; personalization; professionalization |
| Description | The paper deals with the topic of political TV debates in the Czech Republic, which has undergone major changes since the 1990 when they were introduced. The authors draw on the concepts of mediatization of politics (Mazzoleni, Stromback and others), professionalization of political communication (e.g. Holtz-Bacha, McNair) and other general theories on the role and importance of the TV as medium. When finding the answers to the question of ‘how the TV debates have changed in the Czech Republic since the 1989’ the major part of the paper will be an analytical description of the changes, which took place before the 2010 election campaign and which resulted in the stage we were able to witness in the last general elections campaign of 2010. The authors mainly focus on the changes in format of the debates, role of moderators as well as the content and style of this specific TV programme on the Czech TV of public service using data from TV companies, opinion research agency CVVM and the ČSÚ. |