Discussion and methodological proposal for comparative analysis of general audiovisual legislation at national level

Abstract

Despite plenty of literature on public communication policies and the need for regulation in the audiovisual sector to promote the development of pluralistic and democratic societies, it becomes evident that there is a certain lack of precision from the methodological point of view. For the purpose of contributing to the improvement of the elaboration processes of new public policies in this field, and starting on the basis of other authors’ previous models, this paper aims to propose a valid methodological tool in order to analyze general audiovisual legislation at national level in a compared and systematic manner.

Keywords
audiovisual regulation; public communication policies; Methodology; comparative analysis