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New challenges for European multimedia policy : a German perspective / Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem -- Regulatory convergence? / Douglas W. Vick -- Television and the public interest / Cass R. Sunstein -- Self regulation and the media / Angela J. Campbell -- Controlling the new media : hybrid responses to new forms of power / Andrew Murray and Colin Scott -- Shielding children : the European way / Michael D. Brinhack and Jacob H. Rowbottom -- Rethinking European Union competence in the field of media ownership : the internal market, fundamental rights and European citizenship / Rachael Craufurd Smith -- The goal of pluralism and the ownership rules for private broadcasting in Germany : re-regulation of de-regulation? / Peter Humphreys -- Architectural censorship and the FCC / Christopher S. Yoo -- Media structure, ownership policy, and the First Amendment / C. Edwin Baker -- Control over technical bottlemecks : a case for media ownership law? / Thomas Gibbons -- The regulation of interactive television in the United States and the European Union / Herman Galperin and François Bar -- The "right to information" and digital broadcasting : about monsters, invisible men and the future of European broadcasting regulation / Natali Helberger -- Access to content by new media platforms : a review of the competition law problems / Damien Geradin -- Television as something special? : content control technologies and free-to-air TV / Andrew T. Kenyon and Robin Wright -- Yahoo! Cyber-collision of cultures : who regulates? / Horatia Muir Watt -- Spectrum auctions : yesterday's heresy, today's orthodoxy, tomorrow's anachronism : taking the next step to open spectrum access / Eli Noam -- Spectrum flash dance : Eli Noam's proposal for "open access" to radio waves / Thomas W. Hazlett

This book provides a critical analysis and highlights a dysfunctional U.S. Army officer personnel management system. The author explains why the best and brightest young officers depart early for civilian careers and what can be done to encourage them to remain on active duty. Kane also outlines why the military's leadership training is so successful and admired by civilian industry.

Although pluralism is widely accepted as a basic characteristic of democratic media, its manifestation in media pluralism policy is generally characterized by a passive approach to dialogue and engagement. Media pluralism policy is typically focused on the mere availability of information resources, and it usually stops short of contemplating how those resources can be created or how they are to be used, even though the underlying assumption is that they will in fact be deployed to the benefit of democratic understanding and decision making. This article examines some normative inferences from theories of political pluralism, and their implications for transforming such a passive form of media pluralism policy to one that is explicitly more active, and analyzes a series of relevant policy measures. It is suggested that such measures should have a much more significant role in liberal democratic media policy to counter increasing trends for new forms of media activity to become more fragmented and yet more narrow.

Although pluralism is widely accepted as a basic characteristic of democratic media, its manifestation in media pluralism policy is generally characterized by a passive approach to dialogue and engagement. Media pluralism policy is typically focused on the mere availability of information resources, and it usually stops short of contemplating how those resources can be created or how they are to be used, even though the underlying assumption is that they will in fact be deployed to the benefit of democratic understanding and decision making. This article examines some normative inferences from theories of political pluralism, and their implications for transforming such a passive form of media pluralism policy to one that is explicitly more active, and analyzes a series of relevant policy measures. It is suggested that such measures should have a much more significant role in liberal democratic media policy to counter increasing trends for new forms of media activity to become more fragmented and yet more narrow.

Communications are being transformed by the combination of digital technology and a global media economy. There is increased convergence between traditional broadcasting, cable distribution, satellite broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, which has boosted the sheer volume of programming and information that can be conveyed, and extended its reach at both domestic and international levels. Many will see these developments as an opportunity to promote new media products and to rationalise their operations in a global market place. Others may be concerned that the need to compete successfully in that market place will threaten the survival of local and national cultural identity. In terms of policy and regulation, states may be tempted to emphasise trade and industrial policy, intended to improve transnational competitiveness, at the expense of media and cultural policy, aimed at protecting pluralism and diversity.

Research in education involving sex segregation is dominated by a historic paradigm of conflict and sexual politics theory, even when these paradigms may now be inconsistent with the findings of the latest research. Utilizing the California Department of Education's Professional Assignment Information Form (PAIF) in conjunction with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data from 2001-02 to 2008-09 school years this study employs rational choice theory to explain the increases females now enjoy in obtaining the principal position throughout the broad range of schools in California. While previous work contends that women are only gaining access to the principal position in areas that would be seen as "unfavorable" to men, this study finds that women are being made principals systematically in all areas and across nearly all variables. Women are gaining in total proportion of principalships in the more desirable schools in eight of the ten variables studied. Specifically, the hiring of women into principalship positions is increasing in all categories of schools. These include high schools, rich schools, high achieving schools, schools with low pupil-teacher ratios, schools in suburbs and in small towns and in most small schools, regardless of their locations and other factors. Remarkably, these gains are being achieved by women, all while having equal or less education on average than men. However, two variables, "years in the district" and "years teaching", show that women have more years than men in holding the position of principal. The significance of the findings of this study is outlined, as well as suggestions for possible future research.