Introduction : understanding democratic consolidation -- The origins and evolution of media controls -- Delegitimating authoritarianism -- Suharto's fall -- Reformasi and legal reform -- Media retreat in the 1999 parliamentary elections -- Baligate and the politics of scandal -- Scandal and democratic consolidation -- Media and civil society.
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"Focuses on the under-theorized role of the media to explain why some democratic transitions succeed and others founder and why some lead to consolidation while others either fail outright or settle into a state of pseudo-democracy that often masks an atavistic authoritarianism"-- Provided by publisher.
