This widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship
between the media and politics. Revised and updated throughout, this second edition …

Although extensive research analyzes the factors that motivate European parties to shift their
policy positions, there is little cross‐national research that analyzes how voters respond to …

In the last few decades personalization has been identified as a defining trend of
contemporary political communication. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed and there …

This fifth edition of Elections and Voters in Britain has been a long time forthcoming. The
normal rhythm was to update the book every four or five years, after each general election …

This article investigates the current state of press partisanship in the UK. Utilizing content
analysis data from the 2005 General Election campaign, recent hypotheses about press …

The second edition of this popular textbook provides a systematic and comprehensive
introduction to UK party politics, combining chapters on each of the main parties …

The subtitle of this book is taken from an editorial published by the News Chronicle on 19
January 1937 about the Spanish Civil War. The article occupied most of the fifth page of the …

From a communications perspective much of the commentary and analysis of the 2010
General Election focused on the possible influence of the first ever televised leaders' …

Contemporary concerns about the integrity of information are not easily dismissible as
merely a perennial cycle of moral panic. In an attempt to provide context and map territory for …

Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is
about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account for the fact that broadcasting …