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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, journalism, 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.
List of contents
Series Foreword
Preface
Political Communication Defined
ContextsThe Disenfrachised Polity
Language and Politics
The Media of Politics: News and the Political Agenda
CampaignsCampaign Planning, Management, and Strategies
Presidential Campaigns
Legislative Campaigns
GoverningThe Presidency
The Congress
Unofficial Washington
Meta-PoliticsLitigation, Crime, and the Courts
Politics and Popular Culture
Selected Bibliography
Index
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 Cadets Center for Leader Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In addition to numerous articles, essays, and book chapters, he is author, co-author, or editor of 12 earlier books. The most recent title is Political Communication Ethics: An Oxymoron? (Praeger, 2000).GARY C. WOODWARD is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at The College of New Jersey. He has written Political Communication in America and Persuasion and Influence in American Life, both with Robert E. Denton, Jr.
