TY  - JOUR
AU  - Marcinkowski, Frank
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Mediatisation of Politics: Reflections on the State of the Concept
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
PY  - 2014
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2014/2/1/
N2  - This paper reviews the current state of the literature on the
mediatisation of politics. Five common assumptions are
being identified, which in my view form the core of a basic
understanding of the concept. I discuss for each of these
assumptions a number of further deliberations. My analysis
is based on a theory of functionally differentiated societies.
More precisely, I draw on the vision of modern societies
that German sociologist Niklas Luhmann has introduced.
According to his view the functional specialisation of social
sub-systems is accompanied by an increased consolidation
of performance relations between them, because self-referential
fixation on the own function inevitably causes deficits
in most other capacities. Against this background mediatisation
is reconstructed as a response to a serious deficit of political
systems: the notorious lack of public attention given to
democratic politics within modern societies. This framework
has several implications for the reasoning on mediatisation,
which are outlined in the article.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -