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Contents

Contributors page xi

INTRODUCTION
1Comparing Political Communication: Reorientations in a
Changing World 3
Barbara Pfetsch and Frank Esser

I: THEORIES AND METHODS

2Americanization, Globalization, and Secularization:
Understanding the Convergence of Media Systems and
Political Communication 25
Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini
3Transnational Trends in Political Communication:
Conventional Views and New Realities 45
David L.Swanson

4Comparing Mass Communication Systems: Media
Formats, Media Contents, and Media Processes 64
Hans J. Kleinsteuber

5Designs and Methods of Comparative Political
Communication Research 87
Werner Wirth and Steffen Kolb

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