Political communication and democracy [electronic resource] / Gary D. Rawnsley.

Is there a crisis in representative democracy? Political Communication and Democracyuses a broad conception of political communication to interrogate the frequent assertion that there is. Political scientists face the challenge of understanding apparent evidence of a growing concensus that citizens...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Rawnsley, Gary D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • List of Photographs
  • Acknowldgements
  • Introduction: Crisis? What Crisis?
  • Guarding Against the 'Deep Slumber of a Decided Opinion'
  • Public Opinion
  • Instruments of Expression (i): Group Politics
  • Instruments of Expression (ii): Referendums
  • Political Communications and Democratisation: 'Paladins of Liberty?'
  • Towards a New Democratic Political Communication: Information Communication Technologies and Politics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.