A valuable and sophisticated study of the nature of political communication in advanced societies. Choice . . . a good guidebook for political communications specialists and practitioners . . . well worth the time and effort involved in reading and absorbing it. Presidential Studies Quarterly . . . it offers a compendium of virtually everyone, practitioners as well as scholars, who have ever written on the subject.  American Political Science ReviewThis newly updated revision of a leading work provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the role of communication in American politics. A synthesis of some of the best writings in political communication from the fields of communication, political science, and social psychology, the book examines communication problems and processes common to political institutions and other functions of political life. This edition features completely new chapters and sections devoted to the courts and the processes unique to regional and local politics. Arguments have been condensed and made more accessible to general readers. The entire text has been updated with recent examples. Although the framework for analysis is provided by conventional categories of political activity like the Congress, the mass media, and the presidency, the essential analysis focuses on pivotal communication processes.In Political Communication in America politics is seen as a process centered on the communication of reward and legitimacy. What most Americans know about politics has been communicated to them through their representatives, the press, and the public relations machinery prevalent at all levels of government. This study is concerned with the communication processes that can nurture or starve a nation's political life. Students of political science and communication studies will find Political Communication in America a valuable resource.

Political Communication in America (Praeger Series in Political Communication)

Woodward, Gary C.

Denton, Jr., Robert E.

Business & Money

Praeger

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 created a new political landscape and a new era of warfare. Language, Symbols, and the Media, now in paperback, offers insights into the impact and influence of 9/11 upon our cultural, social, and political life. The book opens with an introductory chapter on communications, media language, and visual symbolism in the immediate wake of the attacks. The second chapter considers the challenge to religious pluralism, analyzing the grounds for the immediate backlash against Islam. Chapter 3 reviews several crucial historical and contemporary Supreme Court rulings relevant to the limitations of free speech in times of war and national crises. The consideration of First Amendment rights is continued in chapter 4, which places the Patriot Act in historical context by comparing the legislation and its interpretation of it to other legislation passed in response to past American crises. The immediate aftermath of the attacks witnessed many calls for an end to "the age of irony" and a return to "traditional values." Chapter 5 considers some contrarian responses and analyzes the impact of irony as a rhetorical device in American culture. The unifying role of sport in the post-9/11 healing process in America is examined in chapter 6. Chapter 7 examines the reactions and responses of young adults to the events of 9/11 one year later. Chapter 8 demonstrates how politicians received a public "makeover" of their careers. Chapter 9 explores the impact of 9/11 on the rhetoric of advertising, while chapter 10 focuses more closely on how it affected the tourism industry. A concluding chapter examines several instances of media self-censorship and its implications for the policymaking process during times of crisis. This volume will be of interest to cultural studies specialists, sociologists, journalists, political scientists, historians, as well as general readers.

Language, Symbols, and the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attack

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Transaction Pub

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Now in its seventh edition, Political Campaign Communication provides a realistic understanding of the strategic and tactical communication practices utilized in contemporary political campaigns. It draws on a wealth of examples from local to national political campaigns and communication theory to illustrate principles and practices of campaigns such as functions, stages, communicative styles, public speaking, debates, interpersonal communication, political advertising, and the use of the internet and new media. Trent, Friedenberg, and Denton's classic text has been updated to reflect recent election campaigns, including the 2010 congressional elections and the initial stages of the 2012 presidential election. Many sections now focus on the most recent presidential elections, and the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain. In addition, the authors have examined the expanding role of the internet in political campaigns. Political Campaign Communication continues to be a classroom favorite—a thoroughly researched, insightful, and reader-friendly text.

Trent, Judith S.

Friedenberg, Robert V.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Now in its seventh edition, Political Campaign Communication provides a realistic understanding of the strategic and tactical communication practices utilized in contemporary political campaigns. Trent, Friedenberg, and Denton's classic text has been updated to reflect recent election campaigns, including the 2010 congressional elections and the initial stages of the 2012 presidential election. In addition, the authors have examined the expanding role of the internet in political campaigns. Political Campaign Communication continues to be a classroom favorite-a thoroughly researched, insightful, and reader-friendly text.

The eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices provides a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns. The authors: 
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<li>incorporate examples from all levels—local, statewide, and national—to illustrate the communicative choices confronted in contemporary political campaigns,</li>
<li>discuss all aspects of campaign communication, from buttons and yard-signs to the rapid expansion in use of social media, and</li>
<li>draw on a wealth of communication theories to clearly explain contemporary principles and practices such as functions, stages, communicative styles, public speaking, debates, interpersonal communication, political advertising, and the use of new communication technologies.</li>
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 Updated to reflect practices in the 2012 presidential campaign as well as the local, state, and congressional campaigns of 2014, Political Campaign Communication continues to be a classroom favorite—an insightful, thoroughly researched, and reader-friendly text.

The 2016 presidential campaign gave us an election that broke with many accepted practices and introduced new concepts to campaign communication. Providing a clear understanding of the strategic decisions made and tactical communication practices used in contemporary political campaigns, the updated eighth edition adds an exploration of the primaries, the conventions, and the debates of the tumultuous 2016 election. The update covers key issues including candidate surfacing, the changing role of advertising, social media, journalism and fake news, and issues of gender. With concepts like “fake news” and “alternative facts,” the 2016 campaign brought students of political campaign communication into uncharted territory. This updated eighth edition of a much loved text provides an essential overview of the 2016 presidential campaign that no course should be without.

Well-researched. Unusually coherent. Stimulating. Comprehensive. A top-notch revision of an already fine book! Those familiar with the past editions of this solid and comprehensive introduction to persuasion will welcome the finely tuned Fourth Edition. In it, the authors present the nature and process of social influence in a number of relevant, interesting, and current contexts. Numerous, rich examples drawn from advertising, public relations, politics, religion, education, and the mass media help students recognize the subtle and overt persuasive influences in their own lives. Pertinent discussions of both effective persuasion skills and critical analytic skills equip students with the tools to handle, in a credible, ethical manner, the enormous diversity of persuasive activities going on around them. The interplay of audiences and messages is highlighted in every chapter. This engaging blend of classical persuasion, social psychology, theory, and practice provides readers with a solid foundation to think critically about the persuasion of others and to become effective persuaders themselves.

Persuasion & Influence in American Life

Self-Help

Woodard, Gary C.

Relationships

Waveland Pr Inc.

For two decades, readers have navigated the approaches, theories, and controversies surrounding social movements with the thought-provoking guidance of Stewart, Smith, and Denton. In the Fourth Edition, the authors continue their synthesis, application, and extension of social movement persuasion. The new edition includes a chapter on identification and polarization and one on argument from conspiracy. The other chapters have been thoroughly updated and reorganized to emphasize the functions of persuasive acts and the symbolism created by movement members to explain their perspectives. Many examples are drawn from recent movements such as animal rights, militias, the religious right, and resistance to the globalization of the economy and production. The use of the Internet by movements provides yet another resource for projecting a particular worldview and another window for the study of social movements.

Persuasion and Social Movements

Reference

Stewart, Charles J.

Smith, Craig Allen

Words, Language & Grammar

Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract

This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been in a “cultural war” over moral values and social issues, becoming a divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally. We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social contract. Especially since the “baby boomers,” each successive generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of service, social integration, and the common good. With the social contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency, where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance predicated on communicative idealism.

Voth, Ben

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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Political Communication in America (Praeger Series in Political Communication)

Language, Symbols, and the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attack

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (Communication, Media, and Politics)

Persuasion & Influence in American Life

Persuasion and Social Movements

Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract