Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratizations and de-democratization at national level across the world over the last few hundred years.. It single out integrations of trust networks into public politics, insulations of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centers as crucial processes.
This book explores the workings of democratisation, by examining the role of ethnic identity and nationalism, increasingly cheaper and diversified means of media production, challenging state monopolies of the media. The reality of personalised and globalised media; and the challenging of the connection between a free media and democracy by global capitalism and corporate control of the media.
The Press in New Order Indonesia is based on deetailed and investigative research, it provides a succinct introduction to the political and economic forces shaping this dominant sector of the Indonesian media at a pivotal time in its development.