Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy: An International Study of Innovations in Electoral Campaigning and Their Consequences [Hardcover]

This important new text brings together an outstanding group of international scholars to look at the current state of electoral politics around the world. Elements of the modern (or American) model of election campaigning have been adopted in many countries in recent yearsincluding the use of mass media, the personalization of campaigns, use of public opinion polls, and a general professionalization of campaignsand conditions would seem to favor the spread of that model. Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns. Countries examined provide a cross-section of today's democracies, including the United States, Britain, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Poland, Spain, Israel, Italy, Argentina, and Venezuela. The work will be of interest to scholars and students alike in political communication, political parties and elections, and comparative politics.

DAVID L. SWANSON is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author (with D. Nimmo) ofNew Directions in Political Communication(1990) and (with J. Delia) ofThe Nature of Human Communication(1976).

PAOLO MANCINI is Professor of Sociology of Communication and Academic Director of the School of Broadcast Journalism at the Universita de Perugia in Italy./e He is the author ofVideopolitica(1985),Come Vincere le Elezioni(1989),Guardando il Telegiornale(1991), andIl Giornalismo e le Sue Regole(1992).

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Series Foreword
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: Introduction by Paolo Mancini and David L. Swanson
Campaign Innovations in Established Democracies with Stable Political Cultures
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: The United States by Dan Niml³ì