1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising

Edited By Christina Holtz-Bacha, Marion R. Just Copyright 2017
438 Pages
by Routledge

438 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

438 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters address advertising effects, negative ads, the perspective of practitioners and gender role. Country chapters summarize research on issues including political and electoral systems;... Read more

Table of Contents





List of Tables





List of Figures





Contributors





Part I: General Perspectives





Chapter 1: Ample opportunities – mostly regulated. Political advertising across the world.





Christina Holtz-Bacha





Chapter 2: Modern Political Advertising and Persuasion





Steve Jarding, Steve Bouchard & Justin Hartley





Chapter 3: Methodological Approaches





Michael W. Kearney & Mary C. Banwart





Chapter 4: Gender and Political Advertising: Content and Effects





Dianne Bystrom





Chapter 5: Negative advertising





Todd L. Belt





Chapter 6: The Effects of Political Advertising





Travis N. Ridout & Jenny L. Holland





Part II: Airtime With No Charge For Electoral Advertising





Chapter 7: Political Advertising in Argentina





Martín D’Alessandro





Chapter 8: Prime Time Electoral Propaganda: the Brazilian Model of Free Airtime





Alessandra Aldé & Felipe Borba





Chapter 9: Political Advertising in Chile: State of play in a period of changes





Alberto Pedro López-Hermida Russo





Chapter 10: The Role of Political Advertising in the Czech Republic





Jan Jirák & Anna Matušková





Chapter 11: Political advertising in France: the story and effects of a slow liberalization





Alexandre Borrell & Jamil Dakhlia





 



Chapter 12: Does Political Advertising still have an impact on the Outcome of Election Campaigns? Political Advertising in Hungary





Jolán Róka





Chapter 13: Political advertising in Italy

Biography

Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communication at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard University and a guest researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is presently the Chair of the Political Communication Research Section of IAMCR. Her research interests are political communication, media systems and media policy.





Marion R. Just is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and an Associate of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her research in political science focuses on elections, politics and the media. She has published several co-authored books and articles in professional journals. 

'Holtz-Bacha and Just have compiled a comprehensive handbook on political advertising in many countries around the world. It has first-rate writers who concisely and effectively convey the latest in ad messaging and impact. If you want to know what works and why, this is the book for you. Both practitioners and researchers will benefit from this handbook.' - Darrell West, Vice President and Director - Governance Studies and Founding Director - Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institute, USA