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Concepts and Models
disagreement with differentiation theory. If we believed that media sys-
tems developed along a unilinear path toward greater differentiation, we
would collapse our triangle into a single line, with the Polarized Pluralist
countries at one end, the Liberal countries at the other, and the Demo-
cratic Corporatist countries at various places in between. In fact, we
think the reader will see in subsequent pages that the differences among
the systems do not justify this kind of representation.
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