- Author:
Benon Zbigniew Szałek
- Institution:
University of Szczecin
- Year of publication:
2013
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
237-257
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/rop201315
- PDF:
rop/2013/rop201315.pdf
The so-called ‘Overton Window of Political Possibilities’ originates from a concept named after Joseph P. Overton and is based on the assumption that any collection of public policies within a policy area can be arranged in order from more free to less free. At any one time, some group of adjacent policies along the freedom spectrum fall into a ‘window of political possibility’. Policies inside the window are politically acceptable, meaning officeholders believe they can support the policies and survive the next election.
- Author:
Rafał Klepka
- Institution:
Pedagogical University of Cracow
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
155-168
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2019.64.09
- PDF:
apsp/64/apsp6409.pdf
The manner in which the media presents its recipients with political content has a strong impact on knowledge, attitudes, opinions and electoral behavior. The content of the media cannot be a full reflection of political reality, but the way in which the reality presents it may be closer or more distant from the idea of objectivity and neutrality. The category describing the scale of deviation from the idea of a balanced presentation of content is the media political bias. The aim of this article is to present this concept and determine the specific features of media political bias, its main determinants, elements of the media which make us deal with biased content, and the relationship between the concept of media political bias and other selected theoretical concepts regarding media.
