Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy

DAVID L. SWANSON is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author (with D. Nimmo) of New Directions in Political Communication (1990) and (with J. Delia) of The Nature of Human Communication (1976).PAOLO MANCINI is Professor of Sociology of Communication and Academic Director of the School of Broadcast Journalism at the Universita de Perugia in Italy./e He is the author of Videopolitica (1985), Come Vincere le Elezioni (1989), Guardando il Telegiornale (1991), and Il Giornalismo e le Sue Regole (1992).

• TablesSeries ForewordPolitics, Media and Modern Democracy: Introduction by Paolo Mancini and David L. SwansonCampaign Innovations in Established Democracies with Stable Political CulturesPolitics, Media and Modern Democracy: The United States by Dan NimmoModern Communications vs. Traditional Politics in Britain: Unstable Marriage of Convenience by Jay G. Blumler, Dennis Kavanagh, and T. J. NossiterThe Modernization of Swedish Campaigns: Individualization, Professionalization and Medialization by Kent Asp and Peter EsaiassonThe "Americanization" of German Election Campaigns: Any Impact on the Voters? by Klaus SchoenbachCampaign Innovations in New and Restored DemocraciesTelevision, Campaigning and Elections in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz and Andrei RichterTelevision and Elections in Post-1989 Poland: How Powerful Is the Medium? by Karol JakubowiczPolitical Communication and Electoral Campaigns in the Young Spanish Democracy by Juan I. RospirCampaign Innovations in Democracies Facing Potentially Destabilizing PressuresAmerican-Style Electioneering in Israel: Americanization versus Modernization by Dan CaspiPatterns and Effects of Recent Changes in Electoral Campaigning in Italy by Gianpietro MazzoleniSecular Politics: The Modernization of Argentine Electioneering by Silvio R. WaisbordPolitics, Media and Modern Democracy: The Case of Venezuela by José Antonio MayobrePatterns of Modern Electoral Campaigning and Their Consequences by David L. Swanson and Paolo ManciniSelected BibliographyIndex