Clifford A. Jones
Contributor
Website : SAGE Publications
Lecturer, Levin College of Law, University of Florida. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (4)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), U.S. legislation that was the first major amendment of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) since the extensive 1974 amendments that followed the Watergate scandal. The primary purpose of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) was toβ¦
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008)
"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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