Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media Saturated Democracies
- ISBN-10
- 0745662072
- ISBN-13
- 9780745662077
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-08-27
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- James Stanyer
Description
It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalized nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides for the first time a systematic comparative analysis of such developments in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it assesses the extent to which the private lives of politicians have become a feature of political communication in each democracy. The book provides a comprehensive account of the shifting boundaries between the public and private, and whether any developments are universal or more advanced in some democracies than others, and seeks to explain why this might be. Intimate Politics will be of great value for students and scholars of communication and media studies and political science and is required reading for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the transformation of mediated politics in advanced industrial democracies.
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- 2006
- 344 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Asia Center
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