Strategic Political Communication: Rethinking Social Influence, Persuasion, and Propaganda. Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 241 pp. $65 hbk. $24.05 pbk.
If readers think this book is about how to develop and execute strategies of political communications for political actors or entities, they are going to be disappointed. The book touches only tangentially on the first part of the title and focuses far more on the second. It devotes substantial space to discussing the many classic theories and concepts in sociology, social psychology, and propaganda that are highly relevant to political communication research.
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