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Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson
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en BiografíasThis year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in…
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Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
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On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in…
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Shaping Political Attitudes: The Impact of Interpersonal Communication and Mass Media
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Recent research in the area of public opinion has focused most of its attention on the effect of the mass media, television in particular, as an influencing agent. The author argues that media effects are only half of the equation; the mass media cannot be seen as the exclusive source of political information. In a…
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Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences
For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant upon a candidate s ability to dramatically but authentically impart a strong individual…
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Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media Saturated Democracies
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It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalized nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides for the first time a systematic comparative analysis of such developments in Australia, France, Germany,…
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Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced
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en EnsayoGender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, by Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin, is a book that includes interviews with several of the subjects, inviting not only the reader, but the women themselves to consider why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders. Gender…
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The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen: How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence
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Social networking lies at the heart of a number of fascinating political questions and social concerns, including citizen competence, social movements, and voter mobilization. In The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen, Sean Richey provides an empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. [amazon_link asins=’073916631X’ template=’ProductAd’…
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Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics
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Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in the Age of Confessional Politics analyzes religious rhetoric in presidential campaigns from 1976-2008, proposing a confessional political style successful candidates must employ that differs sharply from earlier ideals of civic piety. Brian T. Kaylor also considers changes in American society that helped create this confessional political system and critiques the problems…
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The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
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The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides new insight into the global growth of the soft power concept, through a comprehensive, comparative analysis of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives. The book addresses the interdisciplinary implications of soft power, that draws together insights from international communication and international relations research, in…
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Communicator-In-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
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Communicator-in-Chief examines the role of new media technologies such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, video games, texting and the Internet in the historic 2008 presidential campaign. Politicians of the twenty-first century will use the Obama campaign’s new media technology strategy to not only communicate with the electorate, but also raise money and motivate…