Are you interested in the history of democracy? Join us in the NWO-funded project Democracy and the (de-)regulation of the media in Europe since the 1970s.

We offer a four-year full-time PhD-position as part of an NWO-funded VIDI-project which investigates the transformation of democracy in the final quarter of the twentieth century through the lens of media governance. We look for a curious, creative and collaborative historian to provide a crucial piece of that puzzle by investigating the contestation of the public media model from below in the long 1970s.

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The Project
Across Western Europe, democracy underwent profound changes during the final decades of the twentieth century. The postwar model of democracy, characterized by institutional trust, social cohesion, and political consensus, came under pressure, giving way to a more fragmented, polarized and contested democratic order. 

The postwar democratic order was...