Politics and International Relations 2011 (UK) - Routledge

New
Strategy in Information and
Influence Campaigns
How Policy Advocates, Social Movements,
Insurgent Groups, Corporations,
Governments and Others Get What They
Want
Jarol B. Manheim, George Washington University,
USA
‘Manheim has written an
always readable and often
startling guide to perhaps
the greatest force presently
shaping our world: strategic
communication. Based on
many decades of study this
book draws together the
wisdom of ages and the
latest insights into the
subject. It clarifies its
operation with an impressive
line-up of cases of the best
(and the worst) of communication in practice. This
is an invaluable text for scholars, students and
communication practitioners alike.’ - Nicholas J. Cull,
University of Southern California, USA
‘This is a masterful analysis of how influence
campaigns and strategic communication work. No
other book comes close in terms of scope, insight,
and readability. Manheim has written a classic.’
- Lance Bennett, University of Washington, USA
Selected Contents: 1. Points of Origin 2. Information and
Influence Campaigns 3. Strategy and Tactics in Campaign
Communication I: Winning the Argument 4. Strategy and
Tactics in Campaign Communication II: Shaping the Decision
5. Networks and Netwaves: Organizing for Influence
6. Riding the Waves: Strategy and Tactics in Network
Activation 7. Feeling the Pressure: The Dimensionality of
Targets 8. Guarding the Castle: Deterring, Deflecting,
Minimizing or Defeating Information and Influence
Campaigns 9. Information, and Influence. Appendix A.
Need to Know: Strategic Intelligence and Research in the
Campaign. Appendix B. The IIC Knowledge Base: A Selective
Bibliographic Inventory. Appendix C. A Bibliography for IIC
Strategy (Including Sources Cited)
December 2010: 229 x 152: 344pp
Hb: 978-0-415-88728-1: £100.00
Pb: 978-0-415-88729-8: £29.99
eBook: 978-0-203-83328-5
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PoliticAl commuNicAtioN & PoliticAl Psychology
New
Making Sense of Media
and Politics
Five Principles in Political Communication
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel
‘This lively and original
synthesis of the research
literature in political
communication is at once a
brilliant theoretical
statement and a downright
fun read. Wolfsfeld’s five
basic principles about politics
and the news don’t just
summarize what we know.
They distill the essential
elements of how the system
works into a new theoretical
perspective that spells out why the most important
things to understand about politics and the media
are not what we expect them to be. This small
book is destined for greatness. If I were stuck on a
desert island with a single book about political
communication as my only possession, I’d want it
to be this one.’ - Scott Althaus, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA
In Making Sense of Media and Politics, Gadi Wolfsfeld
introduces readers to the most important concepts that
serve as a framework for examining the interrelationship
of media and politics:
• political power can usually be translated into power
over the news media
• when authorities lose control over the political
environment they also lose control over the news
• there is no such thing as objective journalism (nor can
there be)
• the media are dedicated more than anything else to
telling a good story
• the most important effects of the news media on
citizens tend to be unintentional and unnoticed.
Selected Contents: Part 1: Political Actors Compete
Over the News Media 1. Political Power and Power Over
the Media 2. Political Control and Media Independence
Part 2: Turning Politics Into News 3. No Such Thing as
Objective News 4. Telling a Good Story Part 3: Media
Effects 5. The Media Get You When You’re Not Paying
Attention
February 2011: 229 x 152: 164pp
Hb: 978-0-415-88522-5: £100.00
Pb: 978-0-415-88523-2: £25.99
eBook: 978-0-203-83987-4
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Manipulating democracy
Democratic Theory, Political Psychology,
and Mass Media
Edited by Wayne Le Cheminant and
John M. Parrish, both at Loyola Marymount
University, USA
Manipulating Democracy offers
the first comprehensive
dialogue between empirical
political scientists and normative
political theorists on the
definition and contemporary
practice of democratic
manipulation. An impressive
array of distinguished scholars
offer incisive assessments and
far-reaching critiques of
contemporary American
democracy.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Manipulating Democracy:
A Reappraisal Wayne Le Cheminant and John M. Parrish
Part 1: democratic Theory 1. Manipulation and
Democratic Theory James Fishkin 2. Manipulation: As Old As
Democracy Itself (and Sometimes Dangerous) Terence Ball 3.
When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative: Disentangling Persuasion
and Manipulation Nathaniel Klemp Part 2: Political
Psychology 4. Changing Brains: Lessons from the Living
Wage Campaign George Lakoff 5. Emotional Manipulation
of Political Identity Rose McDermott 6. Mimesis, Persuasion,
and Manipulation in Plato’s Republic Christina Tarnopolsky
Part 3: Mass Media 7. “News You Can’t Use”: Politics and
Democracy in the New Media Environment Richard Fox and
Amy Gangl 8. The Betrayal of Democracy: The Purpose of
Public Opinion Survey Research and Its Misuse by Presidents
Lawrence Jacobs 9. The Political Economy of Mass Media:
Implications for Informed Citizenship Shanto Iyengar and Kyu
Hahn 10. Exploiting the Clueless: Heresthetic, Overload, and
Rational Ignorance Andrew Sabl
August 2010: 229 x 152: 280pp
Hb: 978-0-415-87804-3: £100.00
Pb: 978-0-415-87805-0: £30.99
eBook: 978-0-203-85499-0
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Blogging the Political
Politics and Participation in a
Networked Society
Antoinette Pole, Montclair State University, USA
In an era of depressed civic
engagement, where access to
the media by common citizens
is limited, blogs have the power
to change the political
landscape. This book catalogs
the individuals engaged in
political blogging, explains why
they started blogging, and
examines what they hope to
gain from it.
2009: 229 x 152: 176pp
Hb: 978-0-415-96341-1: £85.00
Pb: 978-0-415-96342-8: £22.99
eBook: 978-0-203-86631-3
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