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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Foreword to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Introductory Frameworks
• 1 Introducing Political Communication in Crisis Times
• The End of Old Certainties and Paradigms in Political Communication
• Democracy at Crisis Point?
• The Fourth Age of Political Communication
• Defining Political Communication and the Outline of the Book
• 2 Evaluating Democratic Politics and Communication
• Public Communication Ideals and Representative Democracy
• Jürgen Habermas and the Public Sphere
• Comparing Politics and Communication in Actually Existing Democracies
• Conclusion
• 3 Digital Media and Online Political Communication
• A Brave New World of Digital Democracy?
• Normalization, Digital Disillusion and Techno-Pessimism
• Digital Democracy Now: Fragmented, Anarchic and Polarized Public Spheres?
• Conclusion
• Part II Institutional Politics and Legacy News Media
• 4 Political Parties and Elections
• From Traditional to Electoral-Professional Parties: Changing Campaign Communication
• Political Earthquakes, Challenger Parties and Demand Side Explanations
• Demand-Side Explanations
• Supply-Side Explanations and the Failings of Centrist, Electoral-Professional Parties
• Distinguishing Radical Populist Parties and the Basis of their Electoral Challenge
• Conclusion
• 5 Political Reporting and the Future of (Fake) News
• Liberal Pluralist and Critical Political Economist Accounts of Professional Newsmakers
• The Organization of News as a Business
• The Digital Revolution and the Future of (Fake) News?
• Conclusion
• 6 Media–Source Relations, Mediatization and the Populist Turn in News and Politics
• Media-Source Relations
• Media Logic and Mediatization
• Populist Media Meets Populist Politics
• Conclusion
• Part III Citizens and Organized Interests Beyond the Political Centre
• 7 Citizens, Media Effects and Public Participation
• Citizenship, Rationality and the Decline of Formal Participation
• Alternative Forms of Participation
• Media Effects and Influences: From Strong to Limited … to Strong Again
• Media Effects: Difficult Questions and a New Fourth Phase?
• Conclusion
• 8 Civil Society, Powerful Interests and the Policy Process
• Political Communication in Civil Society
• Long-Running Debates on Politics, Power and Policy-making
• Political Access, Lobbying and Policy-making
• Corporate Influence Over Public Discourse About Economics
• Conclusion
• 9 Interest Groups, Social Movements and Campaigning for Equality and the Environment
• Political Communication and the Third Sector
• Third Sector Legacy Media Campaigning and the Environmental Movement
• New Social Movements and Digital Media After 2010: Occupy Wall Street, #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter
• Conclusion
• 10 Globalization, the State and International Political Communication
• Globalization and the Disruption of Nation-State Democracy?
• International Political Communication
• Back to the Future: Globalization and International Political Communication Now
• Conclusion
• 11 Conclusions: Post-Truth, Post-Public Sphere and Post-Democracy
• The Crisis of Twenty-First-Century Democracy
• The Fourth Age of Political Communication
• Seeking Options for Democratic Renewal?
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement