An introduction to political communication

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Preface to the third edition; Politics in the age of mediation; Politics in the age of mediation; Politics, democracy and the media; The effects of political communication; The political media; The media as political actors; Communicating politics; Party political communication I: advertising; Party political communication II: political public relations; Pressure-group politics and the oxygen of publicity; International political communication; Conclusion: performance politics and the democratic process; Notes.

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