IE University top 10 Classics in Political Communication

International Symposium Transnational Connections Challenges and Opportunities in Communication and Public Opinion Research will take place at the IE University in Segovia, Spain on March 17-18, 2011. The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in Communication and Public Opinion Research and unite scholars and practitioners.

Which are the ten classic books on political communication? Our initial list includes these ten books: please, help us complete the list! Share, vote or propose different books!

Norris, P. (2000): A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Democracies. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press

Price, V. (1991): Public Opinion. London: Sage

Chomsky, N. and Herman, E.S. (1988): Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York, NY : Pantheon Books

Dayan, D. and Katz, E. (1992): Media Events: the Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge : Harvard University Press

Thompson, J. B. (1995): The media and modernity: a social theory of the media. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Graber, D.A. (ed.) (1984): Media Power in Politics, Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly Press

Habermas, J. (1989) The Structural Change of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Hallin, D.C. and Mancini, P. (2004): Comparing media systems: three models of media and politics. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press

Bourdieu, P. (1991): Language and symbolic power. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 

Nye, J. (1990): Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. New York : Basic Books

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