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Publication details [#36176]

Deacon, David and Peter Golding. 1991. When ideology fails: The flagship of Tatcherism and the British local and national media. European Journal of Communication 6 (3) : 291–313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | mass media | political system

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0267-3231

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines the role of local and national British media in the promotion of important policy innovations, such as Thatcher's Community Charge, a main shift in the local government's fiscal basis.