This comprehensive analysis of political campaign communication provides readers with historical and contemporary perspectives of all levels of political campaigning. This book is unique in recognizing that elections are the core of democracy and that political campaign communication is the epistemological base of the campaign.This fourth edition of the classic text on American political communication uses principles and practices of speech communication to examine election campaigns. Widely used as the only truly comprehensive book written from a campaign perspective, this new edition is distinguished by fresh examples and information from the 1996 presidential campaign, the 1998 congressional campaigns, and early 2000 presidential campaigns.Trent and Friedenberg include up-to-date analysis and discussions of communicative styles and strategies, categories of advertising, advertising campaigns, mass media consumption and research, political debates and public speaking, news conferences and apologias, and the effects and influence of political consultants. Practitioners and students alike will clearly understand the strategic and tactical communication choices candidates and their campaign managers must make in this increasingly important area of American life. A crucial text for courses in political campaign communication, campaigns, persuasion, and mass communication.

Political Campaign Communication

Politics & Social Sciences

Judith S. Trent

Robert V. Friedenberg

Politics & Government

Praeger Publishers

Praeger

Political Campaign Communication (Praeger Series in Political Communication)

This Third Edition of the classic text uses principles and practices of speech communication to examine election campaigns. It has been widely used as the only truly comprehensive textbook written from a campaign perspective, and this edition provides historical material as well as covers the most current campaign practices. The new edition is distinguished by fresh examples and information from the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and the 1994 congressional campaigns, including up-to-date analysis and discussion of: communicative styles and strategies; categories of advertising, advertising campaigns, mass media consumption, and research; political debates and public speaking practices; rhetorical strategies of announcements, addresses, news conferences, and other responses; the effects and influence of political consultants.Practitioners and students alike will clearly understand the strategic and tactical communication choices candidates and their campaign managers must make in this increasingly important area of American life. This is the ideal text for courses in political campaign communication, campaigns, persuasion, and mass communication.

Business & Money

Robert E. Denton

Ben Voth

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

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