DAVID L. SWANSON is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author (with D. Nimmo) of New Directions in Political Communication (1990) and (with J. Delia) of The Nature of Human Communication (1976).

PAOLO MANCINI is Professor of Sociology of Communication and Academic Director of the School of Broadcast Journalism at the Universita de Perugia in Italy./e He is the author of Videopolitica (1985), Come Vincere le Elezioni (1989), Guardando il Telegiornale (1991), and Il Giornalismo e le Sue Regole (1992).

Tables
Series Foreword
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: Introduction by Paolo Mancini and David L. Swanson
Campaign Innovations in Established Democracies with Stable Political Cultures
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: The United States by Dan Nimmo
Modern Communications vs. Traditional Politics in Britain: Unstable Marriage of Convenience by Jay G. Blumler, Dennis Kavanagh, and T. J. Nossiter
The Modernization of Swedish Campaigns: Individualization, Professionalization and Medialization by Kent Asp and Peter Esaiasson
The "Americanization" of German Election Campaigns: Any Impact on the Voters? by Klaus Schoenbach
Campaign Innovations in New and Restored Democracies
Television, Campaigning and Elections in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz and Andrei Richter
Television and Elections in Post-1989 Poland: How Powerful Is the Medium? by Karol Jakubowicz
Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns in the Young Spanish Democracy by Juan I. Rospir
Campaign Innovations in Democracies Facing Potentially Destabilizing Pressures
American-Style Electioneering in Israel: Americanization versus Modernization by Dan Caspi
Patterns and Effects of Recent Changes in Electoral Campaigning in Italy by Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Secular Politics: The Modernization of Argentine Electioneering by Silvio R. Waisbord
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: The Case of Venezuela by José Antonio Mayobre
Patterns of Modern Electoral Campaigning and Their Consequences by David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini
Selected Bibliography
Index