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• Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series
• Contents
• 1. Political communication research. A brief history of the field and the idea of this handbook
• Section I: Foundations
• 2. Normative theories of political communication
• 3. The regulation of political communication
• 4. Political communication in long-term perspective
• 5. Political communication in comparative perspective: Key concepts and new insights
• Section II: Situations
• 6. Strategic political communication in election campaigns
• 7. Political communication in referendums
• 8. Hypes, waves, and storms: Events and the dynamics of their coverage
• 9. Political Communication in social transformation and revolution
• 10. News media, war and world politics
• Section III: Political Actors
• 11. Political actors as communicators
• 12. Media, political agendas and public policy
• 13. Political public relations
• Section IV: Mass Media and Journalism
• 14. The media of political communication
• 15. The media as political actors
• 16. The production of political coverage: The push and pull of power, routines and constraints
• 17. Political journalists as communicators. The impact of individual characteristics on their work
• Section V: Media Messages
• 18. The quality of political media coverage
• 19. Issues, events and frames in political media coverage
• 20. Politicians, parties and political candidates in the news media
• 21. Entertaining and emotional elements in political coverage
• 22. The political relevance of entertainment media
• Section VI: Citizens
• 23. Individual political communication and participation
• 24. Interpersonal and mass mediated political communication
• 25. Uses and perceptions of political media
• 26. Selection, perception, and processing of political messages
• Section VII: Effects on citizens
• 27. Communication and political socialization
• 28. Cognitive effects of political mass media
• 29. Emotional effects in political communication
• 30. Attitudinal effects in political communication
• 31. Media effects on political behavior
• Biographical sketches
• Index