Books in the Political Campaigning and Communication series

Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

This volume focuses on the 2016 Presidential campaign from a communication perspective, with each chapter considering a specific area of political campaign communication and practice.

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.

This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide. While some of the extremist parties are being imitated in response, established parties can also choose to systematically rule out all political cooperation with them, imposing a cordon sanitaire.

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections. The book also evaluates the application of the professionalization index to nascent democracies, and the impact of campaign professionalism on such democracies.

This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland).

This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years.

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections. The book also evaluates the application of the professionalization index to nascent democracies, and the impact of campaign professionalism on such democracies.

Disinformation has recently become a salient issue, not just for researchers but for the media, politicians, and the general public as well.