The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue

A review of Between East and West: Writings from “Kultura”,  edited by Robert Kostrzewa.

In some countries, democratic competition is undermined less by electoral fraud or repression than by a skewed playing field—unequal access to state institutions, resources, and the media.

Although the leading authoritarian regimes are today integrated in many ways into the global system, they have not become more like the democracies; instead, they have been devising policies and…