Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy

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

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Edited by David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini

ISBN: 0-275-95182-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95182-5

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304 pages, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 5/30/1996

List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Praeger Series in Political Communication

Endorsement From
Marvin Kalb, Director
The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Harvard University: Those of us interested in press/politics owe a debt of gratitude to David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini for producing a collection of excellent studies by accomplished scholars on the way in which the modern means of communication have affected the electoral process in stable and emerging democracies around the world. Their collection is valuable, readable and important.
Endorsement From
Denis McQuail, Professor of Mass Communication
University of Amsterdam: This volume is an excellent example of comparative research in political communication which locates a rich diversity of national case studies within a coherent and challenging theoretical framework. The result is a most informative and thought-provoking volume which will appeal to all who are interested in the contemporary relationship between politics, communication and society and, indeed, in the future course of development of democratic politics.
Endorsement From
W. Lance Bennett, Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science, University of Washington: An eye-opening assessment of how different democracies are responding to similar trends in electronic electioneering. The analysis is sharpened by a useful comparative framework that explores the democratic implications of election campaigns.

Description: 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 years--including the use of mass media, the personalization of campaigns, use of public opinion polls, and a general professionalization of campaigns--and 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.

Table of Contents:

Tables
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 Nimmo
Modern Communications vs. Traditional Politics in Britain: Unstable Marriage of Convenience by Jay G. Blumler, Dennis Kavanagh, and T. J. Nossiter
The Modernization of Swedish Campaigns: Individualization, Professionalization and Medialization by Kent Asp and Peter Esaiasson
The "Americanization" of German Election Campaigns: Any Impact on the Voters? by Klaus Schoenbach
Campaign Innovations in New and Restored Democracies
Television, Campaigning and Elections in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz and Andrei Richter
Television and Elections in Post-1989 Poland: How Powerful Is the Medium? by Karol Jakubowicz
Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns in the Young Spanish Democracy by Juan I. Rospir
Campaign Innovations in Democracies Facing Potentially Destabilizing Pressures
American-Style Electioneering in Israel: Americanization versus Modernization by Dan Caspi
Patterns and Effects of Recent Changes in Electoral Campaigning in Italy by Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Secular Politics: The Modernization of Argentine Electioneering by Silvio R. Waisbord
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: The Case of Venezuela by José Antonio Mayobre
Patterns of Modern Electoral Campaigning and Their Consequences by David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 95-43773

LCC Class: JF2112

Dewey Class: 324


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