A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial SocietiesCambridge University Press, 4 sept. 2000 - 398 pages Is the process of political communications by the news media and by parties responsible for civic malaise? A Virtuous Circle sets out to challenge and critique the conventional wisdom. Based on a comparative examination of the role of the news media and parties in 29 postindustrial societies, focusing in particular on Western Europe and the United States, this study argues that rather than mistakenly 'blaming the messenger' we need to understand and confront more deep-rooted flaws in systems of representative democracy. |
Table des matières
The News Media and Democracy | 3 |
Evaluating Media Performance | 22 |
Understanding Political Communications | 36 |
TRENDS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS | 61 |
The Decline of Newspapers? | 63 |
The Rise and Fall? of the Television Age | 90 |
The Emerging Internet Era | 120 |
The Evolution of Campaign Communications | 137 |
Cares Less? Cynical Media Cynical Public? | 233 |
Stays Home? Political Mobilization | 255 |
American Exceptionalism? | 279 |
CONCLUSIONS | 307 |
A Virtuous Circle? | 309 |
Technical Appendix | 321 |
Notes | 331 |
| 369 | |
The Rise of the Postmodern Campaign? | 162 |
THE IMPACT DEMOCRACY | 181 |
Negative News Negative Public? | 183 |
Knows Little? Information and Choice | 208 |
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