In this chapter, we point to some of the changes and continuities that have characterised the interplay between news media and politics in Denmark during the
last two decades. The chapter has three main focus areas: first, we present key
institutions and players within the Danish political and media systems; second, we
point to some of the theoretical approaches that have dominated political communication research in Denmark since the early 2000s, among them institutional
and sociological perspectives; and third, we conclude by suggesting some of the
differences between political communication in Denmark, as both practice and
research field, compared to the other Nordic countries. We aim to balance the
chapter between a media studies approach and a political science approach to
political communication, but, contrary to much other Danish political communication
research, the chapter especially takes its point of departure in the former.