Quality of democracy as theoretical framework to the study of communication policies

Abstract

This article proposes to incorporate the quality of democracy approach for the analysis of communication policies. How democratic aspects weigh in comparison with other factors of power within the political regime has been one of the questions that guide this proposal. The article invites to rethink communication policies incorporating notions and reports of the quality of democracy with the idea of advancing in reliable institutions for the communication sector. For that, key concepts are exposed to understand what democratic quality means, how it can be measured through indicators and how to incorporate communication policies in the analysis. The work reviews standards of digital convergence regulation such as freedom of expression on the Internet, the neutrality of the network and access to information and puts them in relation with the mentioned objectives.