Campaign Communication and Political Marketing - Paperback

by Philippe J. Maarek (Author)

Campaign Communication and Political Marketing is a comprehensive, internationalist study of the modern political campaign. It indexes and explains their integral components, strategies, and tactics.

• Offers comparative analyses of campaigns from country to country
• Covers topics such as advertising strategy, demography, the effect of campaign finance regulation on funding, and more
• Draws on a variety of international case studies including the campaigns of Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy
• Analyses the impact of digital media and 24/7 news cycle on campaign conduct

Back Jacket

Philippe J. Maarek's Campaign Communication and Political Marketing offers a comprehensive look at the structure and mechanisms of modern political campaigns. Covering topics such as advertising strategy, demography, the effect of campaign finance regulation on funding, and more, Campaign Communication and Political Marketing provides a thorough and detailed insight into the science of running for office. With case studies that include the campaigns of Barack Obama and France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Maarek's text explains the nuances of political culture from nation to nation while highlighting the similarities of campaign functions internationally.

Author Biography

Philippe J. Maarek is a professor of information and communication science at the University of Paris East. He chairs the Section of Political Communication Research of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and is former chair of the Research Committee in Political Communication of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He is the founder and director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication and is co-founder and former director of the Public and Political Communication Department at the University of Paris-East. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Press/Politics, European Journal of Communication, Central European Journal of Communication, the Spanish-language Estudios de Comunicacion Politica, and the Italian-language Communicazione Politica. Maarek is the author of Communication et Marketing de l'Homme Politique, (2007), and La Communication des élections présidentielles de 2007, participation ou représentation? (2009).