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Political communication is a field of communications that is concerned with politics. Communication often influences political decisions and vice versa.

[edit] Fields and areas of Study

The field of political communication concern 2 main areas:

• Election campaigns - Political communications deals with campaigning for elections.
• Political communications is one of the Government operations. This role is usually fulfilled by the Ministry of Communications and or Information Technology. The ministry is behind the communication legislation. The Ministry of Communications is responsible for setting telecommunications policy and regulations. It issues broadcasting licenses, comments press releases, etc...

According to James Chesebro, there are five critical approaches to contemporary Political communications: 1 Machiavellian - ie power relationships 2. Iconic - symbols very important 3. Ritualistic - Redundant and superficial nature of political acts - manipulation of symbols. 4. Confirmation - political aspects looked at as people we endorse 5. Dramatistic - politics is symbolically constructed. (Kenneth Burke)

[edit] See also

• Political campaign
• Government operations
• List of basic political science topics
• Technological nationalism

[edit] External links

• Centre for European Political Communications
• The Political Communication Lab - Stanford University
• Working Papers on Political Communications - Kennedy School of Government
• Political Communications Web Archive Project
• A list of Political communications books
• Power and Persuasion (blog): Where Politics Meets Communication