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New Titles in Political Communication

American Government and Politics

Good Citizenship in America by David M. Ricci. Cambridge University Press, July 2004.

Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It by Alan Wolfe. Princeton University Press, March 2005.

America's UnPatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights by Walter M. Brasch. Peter Lang Publishing, 2005.

Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's by Gil Troy. Princeton University Press, April 2005.

Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda by Martin J. Manning and Herbert Romerstein. Praeger Publishers, November 2004.

America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception by Wayne E. Baker. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Inside Urban Politics: Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs by Dick Simpson. Longman, December, 2004.

Middle Eastern Studies

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman. Cambridge University Press, August 2004.

Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq by Eric Davis. University of California Press, February, 2005.

Middle Eastern Lives in America by Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., December 2004.

Israeli Identity in Transition by Anita Shapira. Praeger Publishers, October 2004.

Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time by Alev Çinar. University of Minnesota Press, March 2005.

The Muslim World after 9/11 by Angel M. Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Peter Chalk, C. Christine Fair, Theodore Karasik, Rollie Lal, Ian Lesser and David Thaler. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., January 2005.

What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman. Princeton University Press, November 2004.

Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq by Stanley Hoffmann with Frédéric Boz. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., October 2004.

Public Opinion/Voting Behavior

Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change edited by Willem E. Saris and Paul M. Sniderman. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics by James A. Stimson. Cambridge University Press, September 2004

Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior by Pippa Norris. Cambridge University Press, September 2004

The Politics of Representation: Election Campaigning and Proportional Representation by Juliet Roper, Christina Holtz Bacha and Gianpietro Mazzoleni. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Press "ONE" for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity by Deborah J. Schildkraut. Princeton University Press, April 2005.

Presidential Candidate Images edited by Kenneth L. Hacker. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., November 2004.

Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism by Marc J. Hetherington. Princeton University Press, 2004.

People and Their Opinions by Richard Sobel and Eric Shiraev. Longman, March 2005.

Race and Gender Studies

Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media by John Downing and Charles Husband. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation by Herman S. Gray. University of California Press, February, 2005.

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS by Michele Tracy Berger. Princeton University Press, 2004.

The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation by Simon Cottle. Praeger Publishers, October 2004.

Violence: Gendering the Debates by Karen Boyle. SAGE Publications, December 2004.

Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power by Christine Acham. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices by Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James. University of Illinois Press, September 2004.


Political Theory/Free Speech

Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges edited by Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch. Cambridge University Press, June 2004

The Public Sphere: An Introduction by Alan McKee. Cambridge University Press, February 2005.

Representation and Democratic Theory by David Laycock. University of British Columbia Press, January, 2005.

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald A. Downs. Cambridge University Press, December 2004.

Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of William R. Cornish edited by David Vaver and Lionel Bently. Cambridge University Press, August 2004

Culture and Politics

Cultural Production in a Digital Age edited by Eric Klinenberg. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market by Katherine Sender. Columbia University Press, December 2004.

Myths America Lives By by Richard T. Hughes. University of Illinois Press, September 2004.

Repression and Mobilization edited by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston and Carol Mueller. University of Minnesota Press, January 2005.

Theories of the New Class: Intellectuals and Power by Lawrence Peter King and Iván Szelényi. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment by Mary Welek Atwell. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis by Paul Pierson. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Borrowed Identities by Jennifer Kelly. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Media and Politics

Seeing the Bigger Picture: Understanding Politics Through Film and Television by Mark Sachleben and Kevan M. Yenerall. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture by Jeffrey P. Jones. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., November 2004.

The Political Mapping of Cyberspace by Jeremy W. Crampton. The University of Chicago Press (Co-published with Edinburgh University Press), Spring 2004.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Media: Magazines & Higher Education by Dane S. Claussen. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Lights, Camera, Campaign! Media, Politics, and Political Advertising by David A. Schultz. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics edited by Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn. Cambridge University Press, December 2004.

Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini. Cambridge University Press, December 2004

Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society by David Holmes. SAGE Publications, April 2005.


News/Journalism

News Narratives and News Framing: Constructing Political Reality by Karen S. Johnson-Cartee. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., October 2004.

The Integrated News Spectacle: A Political Economy of Cultural Performance by James R. Compton. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

Media and the Path to Peace by Gadi Wolfsfeld. Cambridge University Press, September 2004

The Paul Virilio Reader edited by Steve Redhead. Columbia University Press, September 2004.

Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States by Chris Lamb. Columbia University Press, December 2004.

Regional and Area Studies

The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post-Communist World by Aleš Debeljak, tanslated by Aleš Debeljak and Rawley Grau. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., November 2004.

Citizens by Elisabeth Gidengil, André Blais, Neil Nevitte and Richard Nadeau. University of British Columbia Press, January, 2005

Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge by Deborah J. Yashar. Cambridge University Press, March 2005.

Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa by Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah-Boadi. Cambridge University Press, September 2004

The Indian Media Business edited by Vanita Kohli. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

Asia Unplugged: The Wireless and Mobile Media Boom in the Asia-Pacific edited by Madanmohan Rao and Lumita Mendoza. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

British Social Attitudes: The 21st Report edited by Alison Park, John Curtice, Katarina Thomson, Catherine Bromley and Miranda Phillips. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

International and Comparative Politics

The WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services edited by Damien Geradin and David Luff. Cambridge University Press, September 2004

Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies by Kurt Schock. University of Minnesota Press, December 2004.

Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. Cambridge University Press, September 2004.

The Media and Globalization by Terhi Rantanen. SAGE Publications, December 2004.

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society by Jan A. G. M. van Dijk. SAGE Publications, January 2005.

Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation edited by Clive Barnett and Murray Low. SAGE Publications, August 2004.

Freedom of the Press 2004: A Global Survey of Media Independence by Freedom House. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., October 2004.

The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century by James C. Bennett. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., October 2004.


Editor: Jill A. Edy, University of Oklahoma. Assistant Editor: Miglena Daradanova, University of Oklahoma. Last Updated: January 18, 2005