The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781847874399)

Holli A. Semetko is Vice Provost for International Affairs, Director of The Halle Institute for Global Learning and Professor of Political Science at Emory University. She was formerly professor and chair of audience and public opinion research at the University of Amsterdam, and founding chair of the board for the Amsterdam School of Communications Research where she continues to serve as an honorary professor. She is also an honorary professor at the University of Twente. Her current research focuses on media and public opinion in international relations, comparative politics, and in election campaigns around the world.

Margaret Scammell is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Her research interests are in political communications, especially political campaigning, Americanisation and globalisation of campaigning, media and elections, governments and news management, political marketing, political journalism and the appropriate role of media in democratic countries. She is the co-author of On Message: Communicating the Campaign (Sage, 1999) and Media, Journalism and Democracy (Ashgate Dartmouth, 2000) and has published numerous journal articles.