Politics & International Relations: Politics & the Media

By Brian McNair, Terry Flew, Stephen Harrington, Adam Swift

In Australia, as in many comparable democracies, the role of the media in the political process is high on the public agenda. There is a perception of widespread disillusionment with and disengagement from politics amongst voters, and criticism of the media for failing to fulfil their democratic…

Hardback – 2017-02-21 
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

By Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus

The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional polls. However, there…

Hardback – 2017-02-02 
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Edited by Eleanor Drywood, Michelle Farrell, Edel Hughes

Human rights law has a significant impact today, globally and at the domestic level, on law, politics and life. Despite its extensive institutionalisation and its universal, transnational and domestic acceptance and presence, the value of human rights law is highly contested in politics and in…

Hardback – 2017-02-01 
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Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

By Ian Taylor

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,…

Hardback – 2017-01-24 
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Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society

By Jennifer Hopper

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act came into existence at a time when the president’s ability to lead the public was in question, political polarization had intensified, and the media environment appeared ever more fragmented, fast-moving, and resistant to control. Under such…

Paperback – 2017-01-24 
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By Mira Burri

The digital media environment is characterized by an abundance and diversity of content, a multiplicity of platforms, new modes of content production, distribution and access, and changed patterns of consumer and business behaviour. This has challenged the traditional model of public service…

Paperback – 2017-01-17 
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Routledge Research in Media Law

By Christopher Tuck

Edited by Greg Kennedy

In order to provide a better understanding of the shifting nature of influence, this volume looks at how the British government employed various forms of persuasion to achieve its goals across the twentieth century. The collection provides a range of case studies to assess how effectively - or…

Paperback – 2017-01-04 
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Edited by Jeff Kingston

In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported. Since Abe returned to power in 2012, the recrudescence of nationalism under his leadership has…

Paperback – 2016-12-21 
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By Sikata Banerjee

Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics.　…

Hardback – 2016-12-21 
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Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

By Kenneth Paul Tan

This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in…

Hardback – 2016-12-16 
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Politics in Asia

Edited by Ting Gong, Ian Scott

Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to ‘white elephant’…

Hardback – 2016-12-13 
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By Daphne Skillen

This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured,…

Hardback – 2016-12-10 
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies