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CONTENTS

Illustrations ix
Preface and acknowledgements xi
Preface to the second edition xv

PART I
Politics in the age of mediation 1

1 Politics in the age of mediation 3

2 Politics, democracy and the media 16

3 The effects of political communication 29

4 The political media 47

5 The media as political actors 73

PART II
Communicating politics 91

6 Party political communication I: Advertising 93
7 Party political communication II: Political
public relations 125

8 Pressure group politics and the oxygen of
publicity 155

9 International political communication 177

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