The article analyzes the participation and influence of non-institutional actors, such as professional media associations, experts and the international community, on the policy-making processes in this domain i Serbia. Author finds that the non-institutional actors have had an important role in identifying problems whose solutions are formulated in legal texts and which have become part of the media policy. Their impact is marginal in the stage of adoption and implementation of policies, with a very important contribution through the monitoring of their implementation, whose results the government institutions do not use sufficiently. This corresponds with the findings that the systems of policy-making in the Western Balkans are mainly focused on the phase of law development, with poorly developed stages that involve their active implementation and monitoring.
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