The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication provides contexts for viewing the field, examines political discourse, media, and interpersonal and small group political communication, and considers political communication's evolution inside the altered political communication landscape. Agendas for future research and innovation are presented.

INTRODUCTION 1. Political Communication: Then, Now, and Beyond - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania and Kate Kenski, University of Arizona CONTEXTS FOR VIEWING THE FIELD OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 2. Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania 3. The Shape of Political Communication - Jay G. Blumler, University of Maryland 4. A Typology of Media Effects - Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University 5. The Power of Political Communication - Michael Tesler, Brown University, and John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles 6. Nowhere to Go: Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy - Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania 7. How to Think Normatively about News and Democracy - Michael Schudson, Columbia University POLITICAL DISCOURSE: HISTORY, GENRES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 8. Not a Fourth Estate but a Second Legislature - Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin, and Rebecca LaVally, California State University, Sacramento 9. Presidential Address - Kevin Coe, University of Utah 10. Political Messages and Partisanship - Sharon E. Jarvis, University of Texas at Austin 11. Political Advertising - Timothy W. Fallis, University of Pennsylvania 12. Political Campaign Debates - David S. Birdsell, Baruch College (CUNY) 13. Niche Communication in Political Campaigns-Laura Lazarus Frankel, Duke University, and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University 14. The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication - William L. Benoit, Ohio University 15. The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Allyson Volinsky and Ilana Weitz, University of Pennsylvania, and Kate Kenski, University of Arizona 16. The Politics of Memory - Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond MEDIA AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Political Systems, Institutions, and Media 17. Freedom of the Press: Theories and Realities - Doris Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago 18. Press-Government Relations in a Changing Media Environment - W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington 19. News Media as Political Institutions - Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Victor Pickard, New York University 20. Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage - James T. Hamilton, Stanford University 21. Comparative Political Communication Research - Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam 22. Media Responsiveness During Times of Crisis - Carol Winkler, Georgia State University 23. The U.S. Media, Foreign Policy, and Public Support for War - Sean Aday, George Washington University 24. Journalism and the Public-Service Model: In Search of an Ideal - Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds Construction and Effects 25. The Gatekeeping of Political Messages - Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse University, Philip R. Johnson, Syracuse University, and Jaime R. Riccio, Syracuse University 26. The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It? - David H. Weaver, Indiana University and Jihyang Choi 27. Game versus Substance in Political News - Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University 28. Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications - Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota 29. Theories of Media Bias - S. Robert Lichter, George Mason University 30. Digital Media And Perceptions Of Source Credibility In Political Communication - Andrew J. Flanagin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Miriam J. Metzger, University of California, Santa Barbara 31. Candidate Traits and Political Choice - Bruce W. Hardy, University of Pennsylvania 32. Political Communication, Information Processing, and Social Groups - Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan, and L. Matthew Vandenbroek, The Mellman Group 33. Civic Norms and Communication Competence: Pathways to Socialization and Citizenship - Dhavan V. Shah, University of Wisconsin, Kjerstin Thorson, University of Southern California, Chris Wells, University of Wisconsin, Nam-jin Lee, College of Charleston, and Jack McLeod, University of Wisconsin 34. Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint - Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., University of Pennsylvania 35. Political Communication: Insights from Field Experiments - Donald P. Green, Columbia University, Allison Carnie, Yale University, and Joel Middleton, New York University Political Communication and Cognition 36. Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge - William P. Eveland, Jr., The Ohio State University, and R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University 37. Selective Exposure Theories - Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin 38. The Hostile Media Effect - Lauren Feldman, Rutgers University 39. Public and Elite Perceptions of News Media in Politics - Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa 40. The Media and the Fostering of Political (Dis)Trust - Michael Barthel, University of Washington, and Patricia Moy, University of Washington 41. Cultivation and the Construction of Political Reality - Patrick E. Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania, and Daniel Romer, University of Pennsylvania 42. Uses & Gratifications - R. Lance Holbert, University of South Carolina 43. The State of Framing Research: A Call for New Directions - Dietram Scheufele, University of Wisconsin and Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University 44. Agenda Setting Theory: The Frontier Research Questions - Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas at Austin, and Sebastián Valenzuela, Catholic University of Chile 45. Implicit Political Attitudes: When, How, Why, With What Effects - Dan Cassino, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Milton Lodge, SUNY at Stony Brook, and Charles Taber, SUNY at Stony Brook 46. Affect and Political Choice - Ann N. Crigler, University of Southern California, and Parker R. Hevron, Texas Woman's University INTERPERSONAL AND SMALL GROUP POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 47. Two-Step Flow, Diffusion, and the Role of Social Networks in Political Communication - Brian Southwell, RTI International and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 48. Taking Interdependence Seriously: Platforms for Understanding Political Communication - Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis 49. Disagreement in Political Discussion - Lilach Nir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 50. The Internal Dynamics and Political Power of Small Group Deliberation - John Gastil, University of Washington, Katherine R. Knobloch, Colorado State University, and Jason Gilmore, University of Washington 51. Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science - Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki, and Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California 52. Self-censorship, the Spiral of Silence, and Contemporary Political Communication - Andrew Hayes, Ohio State University, and Jörg Matthes, University of Zurich 53. Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Foolishness of Deliberating Groups - Joseph Cappella, Jingwen Zhang, and Vincent Price, University of Pennsylvania THE ALTERED POLITICAL COMMUNICATION LANDSCAPE 54. Broadcasting versus Narrowcasting: Do Mass Media Exist in the 21st Century? - Miriam J. Metzger, University of California, Santa Barbara 55. Online News Consumption in the U.S. and Ideological Extremism - Kenneth M. Winneg, University of Pennsylvania, Daniel M. Butler, Yale University, Saar Golde, Revolution Analytics, Darwin W. Miller III, RAND Corporation, and Norman H. Nie, Stanford University and the University of Chicago 56. New Media and Political Campaigns - Diana Owen, Georgetown University 57. Political Discussion and Deliberation Online - Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University 58. The Political Effects of Entertainment Media - Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania 59. Theories and Effects of Political Humor: Discounting Cues, Gateways, and the Impact of Incongruities - Dannagal G. Young, University of Delaware 60. Music as Political Communication - John Street, University of East Anglia 61. Conditions for Political Accountability in a High-Choice Media Environment - Markus Prior, Princeton University CONCLUSION 62. Political Communication: Looking Ahead - Kate Kenski, University of Arizona and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania

Selling point: Wide-ranging coverage of theories and concepts in the field of political communication Selling point: Chapters authored by the top political communication scholars in the field Selling point: Suggestions about future agendas and innovation

Kate Kenski is Associate Professor of Communication and Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona. The book she co-authored with Bruce Hardy and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election, has won several awards, including the 2011 ICA Outstanding Book Award the 2012 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award, and the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award in Government and Politics. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center. Jamieson is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication (with Dietram Scheufele and Dan Kahan 2017). Among her award winning Oxford University Press books are Packaging the Presidency, Eloquence in an Electronic Age, Spiral of Cynicism (with Joseph Cappella), and The Obama Victory (with Kenski and Hardy).

Selling point: Wide-ranging coverage of theories and concepts in the field of political communication Selling point: Chapters authored by the top political communication scholars in the field Selling point: Suggestions about future agendas and innovation