Table of Contents

1. Introduction to media and communications policy studies.- 2. Policy-making environments and locales.- 3. Politics in the pursuit of policy outcomes.- 4. Media policy mechanisms and tools.- 5. Global policymaking.- 6. Regional policymaking.- 7. Domestic policymaking.- 8. Policy analysis.- 9. Policy evaluation and policy examination.- 10. Policy advocacy.- 11. Looking Forward.

About the Author

Robert G. Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute at University of Oxford, UK, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK, and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale University Law School, USA. He has consulted for governments and international organizations in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.