This major international text introduces the key themes, issues and theoretical approaches in the field. A central concern is to put the politics back into the study of communication by posing key critical questions about power and ideology: what is being communicated, by whom, how, in whose interests, and with what effects and implications?
Introduction
1. What is political about political communication?
2. Why does political communication matter?
3. Who are the audience/s?
4. How do governments and politicians communicate?
5. How is news communicated politically?
6. How is politics communicated beyond the news?
7. How is politics communicated beyond the nation state?
8. How do citizens communicate politically?
Conclusion: Politics and Power.
