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Gustainis analyzes several important aspects of Vietnam era rhetoric: presidential rhetoric, protest rhetoric, and the war as portrayed in popular culture.

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American voters will be empowered by this revealing, behind-the-scene expose of the marketing strategies and tactics political candidates use to win their hearts, minds, donations, and votes.

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The go-to source on campaign management for nearly two decades is now updated to cover the latest in contemporary campaign expertise from general strategy to voter contact to the future of political campaigns.

Political campaigning reinvents itself at a furious pace.

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He concludes that crime reporting neither serves the functions nor has the negative effects that are often attributed to it.

Lotz discusses the functions and dysfunctions of crime reporting, the ideological biases of crime news, and the balance between coverage of explosive events and the less dramatic news of courts and prisons.

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Argues that pre-election presidential debates are not primarily about presidential policy-making. Rather, they are opportunities to demonstrate a candidate's ability to lead by summarising, in a specific test of presidential character, the larger conflict between the candidates.

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The third section deals with central features of campaign practices from a comparative perspective and provides information and data about the media infrastructure and political culture indicators for 50 countries as well as a detailed comparison of country-specific campaign regulations, party system features, and campaign styles.

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Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy.

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This study presents the theoretical areas that political communication consultants draw upon in making strategic and tactical decisions in political campaigns. It investigates the motivations for using a particular strategy and the effects on the voting public.

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Though many studies of contemporary campaigns focus on brief political advertisements and the growing impact of technology on contemporary campaigns, the definitive statements of most candidates are still made in public addresses.

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A synthesis of writings in political communication from the fields of communication, political science, journalism and history. This updated edition features new chapters on the topics of campaign management, congressional campaigns, politics and popular culture, and "unofficial Washington".

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Examining the role of political consultants in elections, this text focuses on state and regional races and considers the strategies and variables unique to the smaller political campaigns.

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Kuypers charts the potential effects the printed presses and broadcast media have upon the messages of political and social leaders when they discuss controversial issues.

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This book examines international radio news coverage of the four superpower summit meetings between Soviets and Americans from 1987 to 1990.

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A comprehensive analysis of the goals, strategies, and effects of the 1996 presidential and vice presidential debates.

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Rhetoric, the authors argue, is central to shaping both political consciousness and political culture. They examine how the rhetoric of the early Cold War years was used to create and develop a national and international reality.

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Chapters discuss such specific topics as the relationship between the press and the censoring military, CNN's and C-SPAN's coverage, how talk radio and television covered the war, the media's depiction of women in the military, the Gulf War as a referent in advertising, and how popular culture legitimized the war.

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