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Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen examines how American political operatives use "personalized political communication" to engage with the electorate, and weighs the implications of ground war tactics for how we understand political campaigns and what it means to participate in them. He shows how ground wars are waged using resources well beyond those of a given candidate and their staff. These include allied interest groups and civic associations, party-provided technical infrastructures that utilize large databases with detailed individual-level information for targeting voters, and armies of dedicated volunteers and paid part-timers. Nielsen challenges the notion that political communication in America must be tightly scripted, controlled, and conducted by a select coterie of professionals. Yet he also quashes the romantic idea that canvassing is a purer form of grassroots politics. In today's political ground wars, Nielsen demonstrates, even the most ordinary-seeming volunteer knocking at your door is backed up by high-tech targeting technologies and party expertise. Ground Wars reveals how personalized political communication is profoundly influencing electoral outcomes and transforming American democracy.

Communication in politics --- Political campaigns --- Political communication --- Political science --- History

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Marko Kovic untersucht, wie sich das Parlament und die Medien in der Schweiz im Laufe von Parlamentssessionen gegenseitig beeinflussen. Er zeigt auf, dass sich Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentarier in ihren Präferenzordnungen und damit in ihrem parlamentarischen Handeln nicht nur nach den Logiken des Politischen, sondern auch nach Medienlogiken richten. Journalistinnen und Journalisten gestalten die Parlamentsberichterstattung zudem in erster Linie im Sinne von Medienlogiken und weniger nach Politiklogiken. Diese Präferenzkonstellation hat zur Folge, dass ein Teil der parlamentarischen Arbeit "medialisiert" wird: Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentarier richten ihre parlamentarische Arbeit bisweilen explizit an den Bedürfnissen der Medien aus und nicht an den Bedürfnissen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Der Inhalt Einführung und Herleitung des Konzepts der „kommunikativen Legitimität des Parlamentes“ Einbettung von Agenda-Setting und Medialisierung in die Denkschule des Rational Choice Triangulation: Verknüpfung quantitativer (Inhaltsanalyse) und qualitativer (Leitfadengespräche) Datenanalyse Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Sozial-, Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Medienschaffende und Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentarier Der Autor Marko Kovic ist Präsident von „Skeptiker Schweiz – Verein für kritisches Denken“ und von „ZIPAR – Zurich Institute of Public Affairs Research“.

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This volume has the same title of the one published in 2011. It collects a series of studies on the long reign of the second Trastàmara King of Naples, Ferdinand of Aragon (1458-1494), using mainly the great mass of information offered by diplomatic correspondences. The authors study some key events and protagonists of Italian history in the Quattrocento (the battle of Ponza, the condottiero Giacomo Piccinino, the journey of Lorenzo de’ Medici to Naples, the war of Ferrara) and important topics about politics and political communication: the relations between the Crown, the society and the fiscal institutions; the use of italian language in the autograph letters written by Lluís Dezpuig, a catalan; the “queenship” of the duchess of Ferrara. Il volume, che riprende il titolo di quello pubblicato nel 2011, presenta alcune ricerche sul lungo regno di Ferrante, secondo re aragonese di Napoli, utilizzando in maniera privilegiata lo straordinario patrimonio informativo costituito dalle corrispondenze diplomatiche. Alcuni cruciali eventi del Quattrocento italiano risultano irradiati di nuova luce (la battaglia di Ponza, le vicende regnicole del condottiero Giacomo Piccinino, il viaggio di Lorenzo il Magnifico a Napoli, la guerra di Ferrara), mentre emergono spunti stimolanti su temi afferentia originali ambiti di espressione del potere: i rapporti tra monarchia, società e istituzioni fiscali del regno napoletano; l’uso dell’italiano nelle lettere autografe del catalano Lluís Dezpuig; l’esercizio del “potere al femminile” da parte della duchessa di Ferrara.

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This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems provided by Hallin and Mancini and at the same time puts them to test. The book further defines the proportions between geocultural patterns – national, regional, European, and global – to outline evolutionary trends in media landscapes. It analyzes to which degree European media have become more European, in the historical course of administrative unification and breaks the results down into concrete indexes and indicators. The book discusses the media systems of the member states of the European Union through a regional perspective, identifying similarities, differences, as well as their convergence in the digital age. It sheds light on the evolution of media systems in Europe, introduces existing relevant theoretical perspectives, and offers an overview of the new developments in European media. The book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, communication, media, cultural, and policy studies, as well as practitioners and professionals interested in a better understanding of the European media landscape's evolution.

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