Political communication in Britain
Subtitle: TV debates, the media, and the election
By: edited by Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimore, and Simon Atkinson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780230301467
Subjects: Campaign debates; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections; Elections, 2010; Press coverage; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Political campaigns; Elections; Communication in politics; Great Britain; Great Britain. Parliament; Mass media; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
Description: "The 2010 General Election represented a pathbreaking contest in Political Communication. The TV debates changed forever the feel of the campaign. This book brings together key commentators, analysts and polling experts to present readers with a unique and valuable insight into the development of political communication in British Politics"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; D.Wring; title: PART I: DEBATES; title: What Took So Long? The late arrival of TV election debates in the UK; R.Bailey; title: The Leaders' Debates: How 270 Minutes of Television Challenged the Position of the Press; A.Boulton& T.Roberts; title: A Framing Content Analysis of Media Coverage of the Debates; S.Coleman, F.Steibel& J.G.Blumler; title: PART II: POLLING; title: Polling Voting Intentions; P.Kellner& J.Twyman; title: The Accuracy of the Polls: Were they Wrong about the LibDems All Along?; S.Atkinson& R.Mortimore; title: The Polls, the Media and Voters: the Leader's Debates; A.Hawkins; title: PART III: VOTERS; title: The UK Expense Scandal and Political Trust; J.van Heerde-Hudson; title: Public Confidence in Elections; J.Watson; title: How Voters in the Marginals Experienced the Campaign; R.Mortimore, H.Coombs& T.Mludzinski; title: PART IV: PARTIES; title: The Conservative Campaign; K.Culwick& A.Wilson; title: The Labour Campaign; N.Cook; title: The Liberal Democrat Campaign; Lord C.Rennard; title: PART V: CAMPAIGNING; title: Election Campaigning Transformed; I.Gaber; title: Constituency Campaigning in 2010; J.Fisher, D.Cutts& E.Fieldhouse; title: Below the Radar? Online campaigning at the Local Level; R.Southern& S.Ward; title: The Visual Election: Online and Off; C.Burgess; title: PART VI: MEDIA; title: So What Was That All About? Mainstream Mediation of the Campaign; D.Deacon, D.Wring, J.Stanyer& P.Golding; title: Genre and the Mediation of Election Politics; K.Richardson, K.Parry& J.Corner; title: Conclusion; R.Mortimore& S.Atkinson.