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CONTENTS

List of illustrations xiii
Preface and acknowledgements xiv
Preface to the fifth edition xvii

PART I
Politics in the age of mediation 1

1 Politics in the age of mediation 3

2 Politics, democracy and the media 15

3 The effects of political communication 27

4 The political media 43

5 The media as political actors 67

PART II
Communicating politics 83

6 Party political communication I: advertising 85

7 Party political communication II: political public relations 118

8 Pressure-group politics and the oxygen of publicity 151

9 Political communication in a globalised world 173

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