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CONTENTS

List of illustrations xi
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Preface to the third 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 16

3 The effects of political communication 29
4 The political media 47

5 The media as political actors 74

PART II
Communicating politics 93

6 Party political communication I: advertising 95
7 Party political communication II: political
public relations 130
8 Pressure-group politics and the oxygen of
publicity 163
9 International political communication 187

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