The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …

The President's words play a unique role in American public life. No other figure speaks with
the reach, range, or authority of the President. The President speaks to the entire population …

Rather than considering political discussions and rhetoric as symbolic, inconsequential
forms of politics, Governing with Words conceptualizes them as forms of government action …

This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including
theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars. The …

The United States, despite official separation of church and state, is a country dominated
politically by Christianity. This is evident in the almost unbroken ranks of Christians elected …

Political incivility in the United States is a growing concern among both citizens and
scholars. Prior research focusing on incivility among political elites has largely neglected the …

Digital text has revolutionized how we consume and produce information, and also provides
seemingly limitless sources of data from Twitter feeds to online historical archives. Such new …

Scholars have long observed that presidential communication about a marginalized group
can help shape that group's reality. Yet most analyses of such communication focus on a …

This study contributes to the scholarship on political and religious communication by
deriving from key theoretical works a typology of Christian discourse. We employ this …

Research on race in public discourse tends to fall into 1 of 2 categories: Either it focuses
broadly on how media communicate about racial groups and frame political issues in racial …