ABSTRACT
Most of the case research in this book has been conceived within a conceptual framework I have labelled an ‘inverted political economy of communication’. This has involved locating specific sites of economic and politico-legal power where localised or networked actions and decisionmaking have wider social impacts. In this book the main networks/sites investigated were Parliament at Westminster, the London Stock Exchange and an NGO-centred international development policy network. Research has then attempted to explore the cultures, beliefs, discourses, practices and processes of mediation at these sites.
