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Christina M. Smith
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BIOGRAPHY Contributor to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008) whose work for that encyclopedia formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Dean, Howard
Howard Dean is an American physician and politician who was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002. He ran for the Democratic nomination for the president of the United States in the 2004 election and served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee. Dean was born to Howard Brush Dean, Jr.,…
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Encyclopedia of Political Communication
Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008)
By Lynda Lee Kaid, Christina Holtz-Bacha
"Political communication began with the earliest studies of democratic discourse by Aristotle and Plato. However, modern political communication relies on an interdisciplinary base, which draws on concepts from communication, political science, journalism, sociology, psychology, history, rhetoric, and others. This two-volume resource considers political communication from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the many different roles that communication plays in political processes in...
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