Mehdi Semati

Rethinking Comparative Media System Theory From Ghana: Toward a Patronage-Based Hybrid Model

This study examines Ghana’s media system through a decolonial lens, using Hallin and Mancini’s comparative framework not as a universal template, but as a point of departure. It explores Ghana’s media in four dimensions: the structure of the media market, political parallelism, journalistic professionalization, and the role of the state. The analysis shows t