Political Communication in America / Edition 3

by Robert E. Denton Jr., Gary C. Woodward

Overview

Denton and Woodward provide a newly updated revision of their classic in political communication. This pioneering text provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the role and function of communication in American politics.

A synthesis of some of the best writing in political communication from the fields of communication, political science, jourbanalism, and history, this edition features completely new chapters on the topics of campaign management, congressional campaigns, politics and popular culture, and unofficial Washington. This edition also reflects updated sources and recent examples. Students and scholars in the fields of communication, political science, political sociology, and contemporary American political history will find this text invaluable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275957827
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/1998
Series:	Praeger Series in Political Communication
Edition description:	3RD
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

ROBERT E. DENTON, JR. holds the W. Thomas Rice Chair of Leadership Studies and serves as Director of the Virginia Tech Corps of Leader Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University./e In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author, co-author, or editor of eleven books. Recent works include Studies in Media and the Gulf War (Praeger, 1993), The Clinton Presidency with Rachel Holloway (Praeger, 1996), and The 1996 Presidential Campaign (Praeger, 1997). Professor Denton serves as associate editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly and as general editor for the Praeger Series in Political Communication and Presidential Studies.

GARY C. WOODWARD is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the College of New Jersey. Professor Woodward is the author of Persuasive Encounters (Praeger, 1990), Perspectives on American Political Media, and co-author of Persuasion and Influence in American Life. In addition, he has published numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of communication and rhetorical theory.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Political Communication Defined
Contexts
The Disenfrachised Polity
Language and Politics
The Media of Politics: News and the Political Agenda
Campaigns
Campaign Planning, Management, and Strategies
Presidential Campaigns
Legislative Campaigns
Governing
The Presidency
The Congress
Unofficial Washington
Meta-Politics
Litigation, Crime, and the Courts
Politics and Popular Culture
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Positing that the essence of politics is communication-- especially in the Aristotelian sense of persuasion--the authors explore how people `talk' in the context of American institutions such as campaigns, Congress, the courts, the mass media, and the presidency. Centered on ideas common to the interactionist and dramatistic perspectives, they study the role of communication in separate chapters on each institution. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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