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New Titles in Political Communication

Social Movements and Free Speech

Social Movements and Organization Theory, edited by Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott and Mayer Zald. Cambridge University Press, May 2005.

Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism, by Samuel P. Nelson. Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2005.

Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition, by John Durham Peters. The University of Chicago Press, Spring 2005

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

Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy, edited by David S. Meyer, Valerie Jenness, and Helen Ingram. University of Minnesota Press, August 2005.

Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective, edited by Hank Johnston and John A. Noakes. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, May 2005.


Mass Media

The Development of the Mass Media, 1896–1996, by Peter Browning. Cambridge University Press, August 2005.

The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and Transnational Support, by Clifford Bob. Cambridge University Press, June 2005.

Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History, by Aurora Wallace. Greenwood Press, July 2005.

The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting [Eight Volumes], edited by David A. Copeland. Greenwood Press, June 2005.

The Media and Political Process, by Eric Louw. SAGE Publications, May 2005

Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles, edited by Robert A. Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, March 2005.

NPR:The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio by Michael P. McCauley. Columbia University Press, September 2005.

Media Reception Studies by Janet Staiger. NYU Press, July 2005.


Political Culture and Theory

Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order by David P. Levine and S. Abu Turab Rizvi. Cambridge University Press, July 2005.

The Politics of Everyday Life: Making Choices, Changing Lives by Paul Ginsborg. Yale University Press, June 2005.

Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers! Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics by Tom De Luca and John Buell. NYU Press, August 2005.

Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life by Mark Blitz. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, March 2005.

Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel. Cambridge University Press, July 2005.

The American President in Popular Culture, edited by John W. Matviko. Greenwood Press, July 2005.

Communicating Politics: Engaging the Public in Democratic Life, edited by Mitchell McKinney, Lynda Lee Kaid, Diane Bystrom and Diana Cariln. Peter Lang Publishing, April 2005.


American Government and Politics

The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR's Office of Government Reports by Mordecai Lee. State University of New York Press, 2005.

Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It by Stephen Macedo and others, Brookings Institution Press, 2005

Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party by Andrew J. Taylor. Praeger Publishers, September 2005.

Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age by Daniel M. Gerstein, Praeger Publishers, September 2005.

The Elections of 2004 by Michael Nelson. CQ Press, March 2005.

Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion [Two Volumes] by Samuel J. Best and Benjamin Radcliff. Greenwood Press, June 2005.

Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics by James W. Ceaser and
Andrew E. Busch. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, April 2005.

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America by Richard Harvey Brown. Yale University Press, May 2005.

Global Electioneering: Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing by Gerald Sussman. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, April 2005.

War, Terrorism and International Politics

The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and International Order by Nicolas Guilhot. Columbia University Press, May 2005.

The New Transnational Activism by Sidney Tarrow. Cambridge University Press, June 2005.

With or Against the World?: America's Role among the Nations by James W. Skillen. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, co-published with: The Center for Public Justice, March 2005.

Terrorism: A Documentary and Reference Guide by Vincent Burns and Kate Dempsey Peterson. Greenwood Press, June 2005.

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror by Mia Bloom. Columbia University Press, July 2005.

Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public by Jon Western. Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2005.

How America Goes to War by Frank E. Vandiver. Praeger Publishers, June 2005.

The New American Imperialism: Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay. Praeger Security International, October, 2005.

World Politics

Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World-making in the Tropics by Consuelo Cruz. Cambridge University Press, August 2005

Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions, edited by Rajeev Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld. SAGE Publications, May 2005.

China's Rise in Asia: Promises and Perils by Robert G. Sutter. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, April 2005.

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World by Andrew Wilson. Yale University Press, May 2005.

Governing Soviet Journalism:The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin by Thomas C. Wolfe. Indiana University Press (forthcoming).

Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region, edited by Daniele Caramani and Yves Meny. Peter Lang Publishing, April 2005.

Japan and Enlarged Europe: Patterns in Global Governance, edited by Takako Ueta and Eric Remacle. Peter Lang Publishing, April 2005.


Editor: David Ryfe , Middle Tennessee State University. Last Updated: December 27, 2005