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current home country, Aotearoa/New Zealand, for example, a small,
widely dispersed population means that even mainstream broadcasting
is a less than lucrative business.
87. Ibid., pp. 165–6.
88. Ibid., p. 166.
89. Ibid., p. 182.
90. Ibid., pp. 166–7.
91. Ibid., p. 177.
92. Ibid., p. 176. Tripartite corporatism (‘beer and sandwiches at 10 Downing
Street’ was the quaint British metonym) bringing unions, corporations
and government into negotiation has, of course, been replaced by the
domineering presence of the professional lobbyists, and the shadowy
networks of corporate hospitality in most Western democracies.
93. C. Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State (London: Hutchinson,
1984).
94. Habermas, Structural Transformation, pp. 203–5.
95. Ibid., p. 211.
96. Ibid., p. 202.
97. Ibid., p. 213
98. Ibid., p. 201.
99. Ibid., p. 237.
100. Ibid., p. 241.
101. Ibid., pp. 226–7.
102. Ibid., p. 210.
103. Ibid., p. 209.
104. Ibid., p. 227.
105. Ibid., p. 208.

2 DISCURSIVE TESTING: THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND ITS CRITICS

1. J. Habermas, ‘Further reflections on the public sphere’, in C. Calhoun

(ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1992), p. 438.
2. C. Calhoun, ‘Introduction’, in Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public
Sphere, p. 33.
3. G. Eley, ‘Nations, publics and political cultures: placing Habermas in the
nineteenth century’, in Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere,
p. 307.
4. K. Baker, ‘Defining the public sphere in eighteenth century France:

variations on a theme by Habermas’, in Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and
the Public Sphere, pp. 191–2.
5. As Eley puts it: ‘It’s open to question how far these [alternative public
spheres] were simply derivative of the liberal model … and how far
they possessed their own dynamics of emergence and peculiar forms
of internal life.’ Eley, ‘Nations, publics and political cultures’, p. 304.
6. By which I mean that their principles, objectives and modus operandi
did not, according to revisionist historiography, diverge so greatly from
those of the bourgeois public sphere that their exclusion from the

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