Download or read book Political Communication and Democracy written by G. Rawnsley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Communication and Democracy provides a wide-ranging and inclusive study of political communications that uses current political events and debates to illustrate its arguments. Looking beyond the narrow view that political communication concerns only the media and spin doctors, Gary Rawnsley examines the subject in its myriad forms: political parties and pressure groups as a way by which people join together, referendums, public opinion and how communications contribute to the process of democratization around the world.