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Much has been made of the speed and constancy of modern politics. Whether watching cable news, retweeting political posts, or receiving news alerts on our phones, political communication now happens continuously and in real time. Traditional research methods often do not capture this dynamic environment. Early studies that guided the study of political communication took place at a time when transistors and FM radio, television, and widely distributed films technologically changed the way people gained information and developed knowledge of the world around them. Now, the environment has transformed again through digital innovations.This book provides one of the first systematic assessment of real-time methods used to study the new digital media environment. It features twelve chapters—authored by leading researchers in the field—using continuous or real time response methods to study political communication in various forms. Moreover, the authors explain how viewer attitudes can be measured over time, message effects can be pin-­pointed down to the second of impact, behaviors can be tracked and analyzed unobtrusively, and respondents can naturally respond on their smartphone, tablet, or even console gaming system. Leading practitioners in the field working for CNN, Microsoft, and Twitter show how the approach is being innovatively used in the field.Political Communication in Real Time is a welcome addition to the growing field of interest in'big data'and continuous response research. This volume will appeal to scholars and practitioners in political science and communication studies wishing to gain new insights into the strengths and limitations of this approach. Political communication is a continuous process, so theories, applications, and cognitive models of such communication require continuous measures and methods.

Jörg Haßler zeigt am Beispiel der Klimapolitik, dass Parteien und Fraktionen vor allem diejenigen inhaltlichen medialen Erfolgskriterien übernehmen, die sie für sich selbst gewinnbringend einsetzen können. Anhand einer Input-Output-Analyse und eines Vergleichs medialer und politischer Offline- und Online-Kommunikationskanäle untersucht er die Übernahme der Medienlogik durch die Politik. Die Gegenüberstellung von Medienlogik und politischer Logik leistet einen theoretischen Beitrag zur Systematisierung des Mediatisierungsansatzes. Die Ergebnisse zeigen erstens, dass sich die Medienlogik und die politische Logik offline und online nicht wesentlich unterscheiden. Zweitens orientiert sich die Politik bei der Darstellung der Klimapolitik nur teilweise an der Medienlogik. Drittens übernehmen Parteien und Fraktionen auf ihren Webseiten die Medienlogik kaum stärker als in ihren Offline-Kanälen.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China. While especially focusing on principal governance areas, it offers comprehensive coverage, capturing the dynamics of governance across vertical and horizontal connexions. The book is succinctly written and systematically addresses essential governance aspects that to date have only been dealt with separately and sporadically: state governance, the executive branch and administration, organization of production and approaches to production, and governance conventions and protocols. Further, it examines the evolution of governance practice in terms of both political and legal superstructure and economic base/infrastructure. Adopting a purely analytical approach and making no value judgments on the country's social institutions and political systems, the book offers a vital resource to help readers grasp the complexities of governance in China.

This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been in a “cultural war” over moral values and social issues, becoming a divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally. We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social contract. Especially since the “baby boomers,” each successive generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of service, social integration, and the common good. With the social contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency, where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance predicated on communicative idealism.

Forging the World brings together leading scholars in International Relations (IR) and Communication Studies to investigate how, when, and why strategic narratives shape the structure, politics, and policies of the global system. Put simply, strategic narratives are tools that political actors employ to promote their interests, values, and aspirations for the international order by managing expectations and altering the discursive environment. These narratives define “who we are” and “what kind of world order we want.”

In this book, Ian Taylor examines how a social movement, the anti-Iraq War movement in the UK, engaged with the media as a part of their campaigning against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Moving beyond content analysis to draw upon interviews with locally based journalists and activists, Taylor examines how locally based anti-war groups engaged with their local press, as well as how those groups were reported on by the local press in their respective areas. In the process of exploring these ideas, the book takes on questions like: How did local journalists assess the legitimacy of the anti-war movement? How, why, and to what extent did opponents of the war pursue local press coverage? What bearing did the social composition of the movement have on the way they set about engaging with the media? How did the local press handle the controversy surrounding opposition to military action against Iraq? Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement makes a unique contribution to research on the interactions between social movements and the media and plugs a major gap in the literature on the Iraq War and the media.

This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory. Walhof argues that Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy enlarges our perspective by shifting our view away from individual citizens to what exists between citizens, thereby allowing us to envision political realities that are otherwise hard to see. These realities include the disclosure of truth in democratic politics; achieving common ground in democratic dialogue, even amidst significant disagreement and diversity; the public and political nature of the religious traditions that make claims on and shape citizens; and the solidarities that connect us to each other and enable democratic action. The author argues that bringing these dimensions to awareness enriches our theories of democracy and is particularly crucial in an era of hyper-partisanship, accelerating inequality, and social conflicts involving racial, sexual, and religious identities.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?; and when do reciprocal dynamics lead to negative, instead of positive, cycles? Answering these questions is important for both scholars and practitioners of international negotiations and politics. The main argument of this project is that positive tit-for-tat (TFT) and negative reciprocal cycles are two possible outcomes originating from the same basic process of reciprocity. It is important to acknowledge both possibilities and understand when a situation is going to develop into one or the other outcome. The study then calls for a broader discussion of reciprocity in international relations (IR). Specifically, IR should include the negative and more problematic side of reciprocity. To exemplify this, the book provides a detailed analysis of two case studies: border and maritime disputes between China and Vietnam; and Mexico and Guatemala.

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the public sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. Featuring a series of case studies in different domains, from presidential speeches to environmental discourse, it demonstrates how political and organizational leaders enforce the imminence of an outside threat to claim legitimization of preventive policies. It reveals that the best legitimization effects are obtained by discursively constructed fear appeals, which ensure quick social mobilization. The scope of the book is of immediate concern in the modern globalized era where borders and distance dissolve and are re-imagined. It will appeal to students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, media communication as well as social and political sciences.

Das Handbuch befasst sich mit sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Wissen in den Bereichen Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft. Thematisiert werden sowohl unterschiedliche fachdisziplinäre Zugänge als auch sprachliche Phänomene (wie Lexeme, Textsorten, rhetorische Figuren) sowie politische, historische und soziale Strukturen (u.a. Akteure, Medien, Erinnerung). Exemplarische Analysen machen zudem deutlich, dass Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft voneinander untrennbare Teilbereiche gesellschaftlicher Wissenskonstitution sind.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don't match what the public wants, thinks and feels about distant suffering

This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can be regarded as frozen debates. The first chapter discusses what is to be understood as politics and political. The second chapter explains the concept of debate as an exchange of arguments in speaking pro and contra. The third chapter presents concrete approaches, research practices and experiences that help analysing debates and documents as politics. The fourth chapter consists of a number of case studies that demonstrate how researchers can proceed in analysing parliamentary debates, documents, laws, and media articles. This book will be of use to all students and scholars interested in analysing texts and documents, as well as in political rhetoric and parliamentary debates.

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness. The first part focuses on accountability and tests whether the offline behavior of politicians is consistent with their online declarations, showing that textual analysis of politicians'messages is useful to explain phenomena such as endorsements, party splits and appointments to cabinet. The second part concerns responsiveness. By means of sentiment analysis, it investigates the shape of the interaction between citizens and politicians determining whether politicians'behavior is influenced by the pressure exerted on social media both on policy and non-policy issues. Finally, the book evaluates whether a responsive behavior is successful in restoring online political trust, narrowing the gap between voters and political elites. The book will be of use to students, scholars and practitioners interested in party organization, intra-party politics, legislative politics, social media analysis and political communication, as well as politicians themselves.

This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant. It covers topics including: what is meant by political participation; youth political participation on a pan-European basis; new social media and youth political participation; whether the voting age should be lowered to 16; youth participation at the local level; and young women and political participation. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book provides a detailed investigation into the extent to which young people in the twenty-first century are interested and participate in politics. The author has included interviews with many young people, as well as with academics and specialists in the field. The book's greatest contribution is to the debate surrounding whether or not the voting age should be lowered to 16 – a timely and thought-provoking analysis.

Christiana Gransow untersucht anhand von zehn Rundfunksystemen die Implementierungen des Public-Value-Tests. Der Vergleich zeigt, sobald ein Regulierungsmechanismus besteht, der die Angebote der öffentlichen Medienanbieter auf deren Beitrag zur Erbringung des gesetzlichen Auftrags untersucht, wird der Umfang des gesetzlichen Auftrags im Hinblick auf die Onlineangebote und -aktivitäten bewusst weit vom Gesetzgeber gefasst. Die qualitative Untersuchung legt offen, dass lediglich 8 der analysierten Mediensysteme eine Form des Ex-ante-Tests umsetzten und wiederum nur 6 Fallbeispiele das Prüfverfahren anwandten, die allerdings nicht frei von Mängeln sind. Nicht nur das Ausführen erweist sich als schwierig, sondern auch das Bestimmen des Schlüsselbegriffs Public Value stellt eine Herausforderung dar. Entlang von institutionellen sowie organisatorischen Kriterien formuliert die Autorin ein Vergleichsmodell der einzelnen Public Value-Tests.

Christian Wiencierz beschreibt einen neuen, interdisziplinären Ansatz, der die für politische Parteien wahlentscheidende, immaterielle Ressource Vertrauen greifbar und operationalisierbar macht. Die repräsentative Befragung zeigt erstmals, dass Parteien mit ihrer Wahlwerbung Gespräche über politische Sachverhalte unter Bürgern forcieren können, welche wiederum den dargestellten Vertrauensprozess beeinflussen können. Parteien sollten gezielt versuchen positive Gespräche mit ihrer Wahlwerbung zu erzeugen, denn es besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Konnotation der Gespräche und der Vertrauenswürdigkeit der Parteien. Letztere erweist sich wiederum als signifikanter Prädiktor für die Wahlentscheidung der Bürger.

Petra Hemmelmann zeichnet die inhaltlichen Leitlinien der Partei CDU seit ihrer Gründung bis in die Gegenwart nach. Erstmals wird eine flächendeckende Inhaltsanalyse aller Wahl- und Grundsatzprogramme vorgelegt, die zudem die unvermeidliche Spannung von Programmatik und praktischer Politik berücksichtigt. Die Untersuchung identifiziert den Markenkern der deutschen Christdemokratie und prüft insbesondere die Entwicklung des programmatischen Profils unter der Parteivorsitzenden Angela Merkel. Ob nämlich Atomausstieg, Aussetzung der Wehrpflicht oder Einführung des Mindestlohns: Mehrere von ihr als Kanzlerin verantwortete Entscheidungen scheinen der traditionellen CDU-Programmatik auf den ersten Blick entgegenzustehen. Den Vorwurf vieler Kritiker, die CDU unter Merkel sei profil- und richtungslos, kann die vorliegende Untersuchung jedoch in Bezug auf die rhetorische Selbstdarstellung in Parteiprogrammen klar widerlegen.

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in central and local government. Effective policy advising does not proceed in ‘cycles'or neatly ordered ‘stages'and ‘steps', but is first and foremost a relationship built on careful listening, knowing one's place in the constitutional scheme of things, becoming useful and winning the confidence of decision makers. The author introduces readers to a public value approach to policy advising that uses collective thinking to address complex policy problems; evidence-informed policy analysis that factors in emotions and values; and the practice of ‘gifting and gaining'(rather than ‘trade-offs') in collaborative governing for the long term. Theory is balanced with practical illustration and processes, tools and techniques, helping readers master the art ofcommunicating what decision-makers need to hear, as well as what they want to hear.

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international','neoliberal','biopolitical'and'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.

This volume concerns the origins, organisation and method of British, American and Soviet propaganda during the 1950s. Drawing upon a range of archival material which has only been accessible to researchers in the last few years, the authors discuss propaganda's international and domestic dimensions, and chart the development of a shared Cold War culture. They demonstrate how the structures of propaganda which were organised at this time endured, giving shape and meaning to the remaining years of the Cold War.

The multiple impact of the May 1968 events in France is here reviewed and analysed, initially through a narrative account of the events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the various manners in which they have been interpreted and reproduced in France. This covers successively political, social/sociological, and cultural texts - first-hand accounts along with works by political activists and academic social scientists - before moving to a consideration of fictional works (novels and feature films) dealing with or set during the events.

The Federal Republic of Germany has long been held up as a'model society'on account of its economic and social policy achievements. Largely ignored, however, has been the crucial part played by extra-parliamentary protest in the maturing of democracy in that society. In this, the first comprehensive study of the subject in English, the authors trace the rich history of political protest in West Germany and examine the political role of critical intellectuals. The book will give the reader a good understanding of the crucial changes that have taken place in the political culture of the Federal Republic since the mid 1960s.

South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid. Its powerful trade unions are playing a central role, and the political direction they take will have huge significance for how we understand the role of labour movements in struggles for social justice in the twenty-first century.

In this thorough, yet accessible, book, Robert Garner explores the character of animal protection policy making in Britain and the United States and the opportunities open to animal protection movements. In showing how the political system in both countries has been responsive to the growing demands for reforms in the way animals are treated, he argues that there is a viable reformist strategy for the animal protection movement short of the adoption of animal rights objectives. Much less protection is afforded to animals in the United States, however, largely as a consequence of the particular policy networks within which animal welfare decisions are made.

Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft die Inhalte der Medien wie prägen und viertens um eine friedensstiftende Sicht auf diese Zusammenhänge. Das Fazit: Definitorisch gibt es kaum noch einen Unterschied zwischen medialer Kommunikation und Krieg.

This book examines the relationships between the social problems of the mass age, developments in late twentieth-century capitalism, the growth of a mass media advertising system, and the operation and assumptions of liberal democracy. Advertising must sell, not only goods and services, but also definitions of life and of status, images, hopes and feelings. In turn, the very universality of advertising, and its acceptance as a mode of communication, have forced the political system into the same mould.

Die Autoren dieser Studie untersuchen, wie Medien die rechtsextreme Szene in Deutschland beeinflussen und behandeln dabei insbesondere die schwierige Frage, wie Journalisten über rechtsextreme Gewalt berichten können, ohne zu weiterer Gewalt zu inspirieren. Auf Basis von Interviews mit ehemals hochrangigen Neonazis, die exklusive Einblicke in die Szene ermöglichen, kommt die Analyse zu dem Ergebnis, dass Rechtsextreme massenmediale Berichterstattung aktiv verfolgen, die Medienlogik antizipieren und Strategien entwickeln, um Massenmedien zu instrumentalisieren.

The book examines the highly dynamic communication ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers the ramifications for contemporary democracy arising from the large-scale uptake of social media by variegated protest networks, which no longer pivot on the coordination capacity of bureaucratic movement organizations. The book ties these aspects together to propose that contentious politics can be a fertile ground for progressive civic participation.

This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.

Diese Studie zeigt, welche Erwartungen und Wünsche die Bürger in Baden-Württemberg an Kommunikation und Beteiligung bei Energieprojekten haben und was diese für Kommunikatoren aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft bedeuten. Die Diskussion über die Energiewende und die dafür notwendige Infrastruktur ist in vollem Gange. Für Entscheidungsträger und Verantwortliche aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ist der Zwang zum Handeln spürbar. Die Akzeptanz der Bevölkerung gilt als Notwendigkeit und kann doch nicht per se vorausgesetzt werden. Kommunikation wird dabei oftmals als Erfolgsfaktor, bisweilen aber auch als Hemmnis angesehen.

Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences, and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development cooperation.

Jan Niklas Kocks explores the effects of the now almost ubiquitous online media on political media relations and the interactions defining them. He analyses the ways in which leading political spokespersons and journalists perceive digitisation in terms of technological, organisational and political change as well as the actual adaptations of digitisation on an individual and organisational level. Political media relations are approached from a perspective of social network analysis. Findings indicate a picture of political media relations as a continuing elite phenomenon. Networks are still mostly characterised by exclusive arrangements – and often to an even larger degree than the actors involved actually perceive.

This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policy is conceptualized in its member states. Utilizing 83 interviews with foreign policy makers and experts, as well as the analysis of 119 foreign-policy speeches, the author traces key shifts in official foreign policy discourse. In order to evaluate the degree of support for key IBSA Dialogue Forum concepts within national discourse, the author also examines the interplay between official and broader societal discourses on foreign policy. This analysis combines political science factors (foreign policy role conceptions) with linguistic factors, thus enabling a qualitative and quantitative comparison of different framings of foreign policy. Extensive empirical material collected during six months of field research in India, Brazil and South Africa allows the author to present a differentiated account of their alleged like-mindedness.

Josef F. Haschke widmet sich in diesem Buch der offenbar krisenhaften Vertrauensbeziehung zwischen Bürgern und Politikern, indem er untersucht, wie politische Vertrauens- bzw. Misstrauensurteile entstehen und wie sie strukturell zusammengesetzt sind. Hierzu integriert der Autor Erkenntnisse aus der Sozialpsychologie, der Soziologie, der Politikwissenschaft sowie der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in einem theoretischen Analysemodell. Ergebnis der empirischen Prüfung im Rahmen einer qualitativen Interviewstudie ist eine Typologie politischer Vertrauensurteile: Sie zeigt die lebensweltliche Heterogenität des Politikervertrauens entlang politischer Milieus und relativiert die These einer umfassenden politischen Vertrauenskrise.

Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures. This book critically interrogates the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, cultural and political enterprises and as a public sphere in which a variety of political and socio-cultural demands can be met. It examines policy, regulatory and socio-cultural issues arising from the transformation of communication to a multi-layered sphere of online and social networks. The central theme of the book is to address the following questions: Are online and social networks an unstoppable democratizing and mobilizing force? Is there a need for policy and intervention to ensure the development of comprehensive and inclusive social networking frameworks? Social media are viewed both as a tool that allows citizens to influence policymaking, and as an object of new policies and regulations, such as data retention, privacy and copyright laws, around which citizens are mobilizing.

Markus K. Grimm liefert eine fundierte politische Einordnung der Parteien und Repräsentanten der italienischen Rechten seit 1994 und entwirft ein Modell zur Untersuchung der Veränderung von bestehenden extremen Parteien in Parteiensystemen. In dieser archetypischen Fallstudie, einer historischen Längsschnittuntersuchung des rechten Parteienspektrums, werden am Beispiel der Alleanza Nazionale (AN) Kriterien herausgearbeitet und erprobt, anhand derer auch Entwicklungen in anderen Parteiensystemen analysiert werden können. Die radikale Veränderung der politischen Landschaft in Italien zeigt deutlicher als in anderen Ländern, welche Möglichkeitsräume sich dadurch Parteien des politischen Randes eröffnen. Die AN steht dabei idealtypisch für den Versuch der Orientierung in die politische Mitte.

This book examines changing Soviet and Russian press coverage of the United States from the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev through the presidency of Vladimir Putin. A new afterword focuses on recent developments in the Russian media and Russian press coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Becker argues that due to the absence of a language to support the reform strategy, the Soviet press presented positive images of its chief ideological and military opponent, the United States, as a means of supporting political, social and economic reform. He suggests that the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a more self-confident Russia means that the symbolic and discursive significance of the United States for Russia has diminished.

Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with complex environments in which they need to take collective decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with different actors. The negotiation and decision-making processes raise issues of legitimacy, leadership and communication. Modern societal systems are not only affected by horizontal specialization and diversity but also by a vertical expansion of governance layers. The national level is no longer the sole, or even the most important, level of governance. In these complex environments, cognitive abilities and personalities of political and societal elites have gained importance. This book addresses the impact of an increasingly complex environment on the legitimacy and transparency of polities, on the role of leadership and political personality and on motivated images, rhetoric and communication. Examining how these issues interact at the macro and theoretical level, the types of problems decision-makers face and how they communicate ideas with their audiences, it brings together leading experts in political psychology, law and political science to bridge the gap in the way these disciplines explore the issue of complex decision-making.

This book uncovers how US-India relations have changed and intensified during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Barack Obama. Throughout the Cold War, US-India relations were often distant and volatile as India mostly received attention at times of grave international crises, but from the late 1990s onwards, the US showed a more sustained interest in India. How was this shift possible? While previous scholarship has focused on the civilian nuclear deal as a turning point, this book presents an alternative account for this change by analyzing how India's identity has been constructed in different terms after the Cold War. It examines the underlying discourse and explains how this enables or constrains US foreign policymakers when they establish security policies with India and improve US-India relations.

L. Uwe Heil zieht auf der Suche nach einer Begriffsalternative zur Politikverdrossenheit Überlegungen aus der betriebswirtschaftlichen Marketingforschung heran. Ausgehend vom Konzept des gesättigten Marktes, der mit Marketingmaßnahmen belebt werden kann, entwickelt er mit der „Gesättigten Demokratie“ eine neue Betrachtungsweise, die den Terminus der Politikverdrossenheit ablösen und gleichzeitig Anknüpfungspunkte für konkrete Gegenmaßnahmen liefern kann. Zusammen mit dem Begriff der Unzufriedenheit lassen sich mit Demokratiesättigung die bisher unter Politikverdrossenheit zusammengefassten Beobachtungen erklären.

Melanie Breunlein zeigt den Wandel des politischen Deutschlandbildes und Nationenvertrauens gegenüber Deutschland in sechs führenden US-Tageszeitungen zwischen 1999 und 2011. Als theoretische Basis erarbeitet sie ein Nationenbild-Nationenvertrauens-Modell, das die Entstehungsprozesse beider Phänomene und mögliche Zusammenhänge zwischen ihnen darstellt. Mithilfe der neu entwickelten Instrumente Nation Image Index und Nation Trust Index lassen sich Nationenbilder und Nationenvertrauen künftig systematischer analysieren. Die Autorin belegt theoretisch und empirisch, wie wichtig Vertrauensaspekte für Verständnis und Analyse von Nationenimages sind. Die Ergebnisse tragen dazu bei, die hohe Imagerelevanz von öffentlichem Vertrauen künftig stärker in den wissenschaftlichen Fokus zu rücken.

This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels – in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioning of educational curricula and through media strategies – as well as in the interface with both artistic expressions and popular culture in the Muslim world at large. The representations of collective memory have been one of the foremost tools in national identity politics, grass-root mobilization, theological debates over Islam and general discussions on what constitutes ‘the modern in the Middle East'as well as in Muslim diaspora environments. Few, if any, contemporary conflicts in the region can be understood in depth without a certain focus on various uses of history, memory cultures and religious meta-narratives at all societal levels, and in art and literature. This book will be of use to students and scholars in the fields of Identity Politics, Islamic Studies, Media and Cultural Anthropology.

This book explores how contemporary governing leaders can overcome the typical trend of losing a public support in power by following more effective communication strategies. It shows how new forms of communication that emphasise acknowledgement and respect for public criticisms and concerns can be used by governing leaders to show the public that they still have the leadership qualities they entered office with, despite the extra challenges that political office presents. The book outlines a new model, The Contemporary Governing Leaders'Communication Model, through which leaders can communicate their positive personal and professional qualities in government. The book illustrates this model in use through the communication of United States President Barack Obama and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key during their first terms in political office.

Das Buch zieht eine erste Bilanz der Präsidentschaft Barack Obamas. Es dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der Wahlen zum Kongress und in den Einzelstaaten, die an Bedeutung zunehmen. Analysiert werden die Einflüsse der Tea Party, der Wahlkampffinanzierung und der Super PACs auf den politischen Wettbewerb, der polarisiert ist wie selten zuvor in der amerikanischen Geschichte. Welche Spuren diese neuen politischen Entwicklungen im Kongress und in den Strategien der Kongressmitglieder hinterlassen, wird ebenso untersucht, wie die Folgen für das politische Erbe Obamas. Die Gründe, warum der erste afro-amerikanische Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten die hohen Erwartungen an seine „transformative Präsidentschaft“ nur begrenzt erfüllen konnte, werden anhand der wichtigsten Handlungsfelder des Präsidenten erörtert: Obama als „executive leader“, als „legislative leader“ und in seinem Verhältnis zur Judikative. Auf die Gesundheitsreform als dem zentralen innenpolitischen Vermächtnis des Präsidentenlegt das Buch ein besonderes Augenmerk – wie auch auf die Außenpolitik, die das Bild Obamas in der Welt bestimmen wird.

Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called'non-traditional'security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of the 21st century. The resulting gaps in governance have increasingly been filled by think tanks, which have arguably begun to change the way that Asian security is governed.

Exploring the key debates surrounding human nature, epistemology, the nature of social knowledge, foreign policy, the Propaganda Model, the anarchist tradition and the revolutionary transformation of society, this book reveals and explains the structure and power of Chomsky's work.

This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants of a world in which they can make a difference. By enabling citizens to encounter and make sense of events, relationships and cultures of which they have no direct experience, the media constitute a public arena in which members of the public come together as more than passing strangers.

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.

The news media have significant influence on the formation of public opinion. Called the agenda-setting role of the media, this influence occurs at three levels. Focusing public attention on a select few issues or other topics at any moment is level one. Emphasizing specific attributes of those issues or topics is level two. The Power of Information Networks: The Third Level of Agenda Setting introduces the newest perspective on this influence. While levels one and two are concerned with the salience of discrete individual elements, the third level offers a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective to explain media effects in this evolving media landscape: the ability of the news media to determine how the public associates the various elements in these media messages to create an integrated picture of public affairs. This is the first book to detail the theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and international empirical evidence for this new perspective. Cutting-edge communication analytics such as network analysis, Big Data and data visualization techniques are used to examine these third-level effects. Diverse applications of the theory are documented in political communication, public relations, health communication, and social media research. The Power of Information Networks will interest scholars, students and practitioners concerned with the media and their social and cultural effects.

Die Studie analysiert die Diskursführung der schwarz-gelben Bundesregierung im Kontext der Energiewende zwischen 2009 und 2013. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass insgesamt eine entschlossene Transformation des Energiesystems auch argumentativ nur halbherzig in Angriff genommen wurde. Die propagierte Verbindung von Klimaschutzanstrengungen mit den Vorteilen eines nachhaltigen Wachstums eröffnete zwar Handlungsspielräume. Parallel prägten jedoch klassische vergangenheitsbedingte industriepolitische Paradigmen den Diskurs, so dass sich die Argumentationsmuster widersprachen. Insgesamt entzauberte Schwarz-Gelb zwar den Mythos der Energiewende, dennoch erscheint ihr Gelingen heute realistischer als dies vor 2009 der Fall war.