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Political Communication and Cognition

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Political Campaigning and Communication (PCC)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Thinking Politics — An Introduction

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 1-18
  3. Strategic Political Communication

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 19-46
  4. Political Conditioning

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 65-79
  5. Peripheral Cues and Personality Politics

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 80-99
  6. Proximity Politics and Valence

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 100-114
  7. Emotional Motivations and Deep Cognition

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 115-133
  8. Thinking Twice

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 134-150
  9. Political Participation in a Digital Age

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 151-176
  10. Voting and Voter Decision-Making

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 177-197
  11. Modelling Political Cognition

    • Darren G. Lilleker
    Pages 198-205
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 206-239

About this book

Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK

    Darren G. Lilleker

About the author

Darren G. Lilleker is Associate Professor in Political Communication in The Media School, Bournemouth University. Dr Lilleker's expertise is in the professionalization and marketisation of politics, in which he has published widely including Key Concepts in Political Communication (2006), and Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet (2011) and has co-edited The Marketing of Political Parties (2006), Voters or Consumers (2008) and Political Marketing in Comparative Perspective (2005).

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