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Contributors

(1999), Wahlkampf in den Medien–Wahlkampf mit den Medien (1999),
and Wahlwerbung als politische Kultur (2001).

Hans J. Kleinsteuber is Professor of Political Science and Journalism at
the University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied in Berlin and Medford,
Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the Free University
of Berlin. He was visiting professor at various universities in the United
States, Canada, Australia, and Japan and is a member of the Euromedia
Research Group since 1982. His research interests include media policy
and political communication in comparativeperspective. He published
several books, including Europa als Kommunikationsraum (1994, with
T.Rossmann),InformationSuperhighway(1996),andNeueMedientrends
in den USA (2001).

Steffen Kolb studied media and communication sciences and political
sciences at the universities of Leipzig and Aix-en-Provence. As research
andteachingassistantattheUniversityofHamburg,Germany,heiscom-
pletinghisdoctoralthesisonmediacoverageofleadedgasincomparative
perspective. His research interests include intercultural communication,
empirical methods, and political communication.

Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Depart-
ment of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After
studies in sociology at the universities of Berne, Chicago, and Zurich, he
became an assistant professor in sociology at the University of Zurich.
Then he taught political behavior at the University of Amsterdam and
Swiss politics and comparative politics at the University of Geneva. His
research focuses on opinion formation in grassroots democracies, elec-
tions, social movements, the development of West European party sys-
tems and the European public sphere, and public participation in demo-
cratic systems.

Sabine Lang is Visiting Associate DAAD Professor of Politics at the
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of
Washington, Seattle. Having finished her studies of political science in
Freiburg, New York, and Berlin, she did her doctorate on the “Political
PublicintheModernState”(published2001).Shewasassistantprofessor
in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University
of Berlin and visiting Fellow at the Center of European Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley. She published widely, particularly on

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