How governments manage their communication is one crucial indicator of the balance of
power within the cabinet and inside the executive branch as a whole. Existing research …

Public bureaucracies have mostly been invisible in research on political communication, but
more recently, there has been an increasing interest in their communicative efforts. In this …

This paper offers insights into how public affairs practitioners perceive their often-debated
role in the political process. By examining the specific group of public affairs practitioners …

This chapter hypothesises that there is a trend of centralisation in government
communication–a move upwards in the political executive towards central coordination and …

Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership seeks to gather some of the best work on political
leadership broadly defined, stretching from classical areas such as executive, legislative …

This chapter explores political executive-media relations in Sweden, with a particular focus
on professional day-to-day relationships and habits. The analysis is mainly based on …

Syftet med denna avslutande rapport kring finanskrisen hösten 2008 är att diskutera
kriskommunikationens villkor och opinionsbildningens dynamik genom att analysera det …

When Tony Blair, as leader of 'New'Labour, won the 1997 UK General Election by a
landslide using the slogan 'New Labour, New Britain', the man behind the slogan, Alastair …

This study seeks to explore the relation between the elusive scholarly concept and the
media framing of the role and practice of lobbying. The longitudinal study analyses a time …

Government agencies in Sweden are experiencing a communicative turn where notions
concerning branding, image and identity have become standardized tools and concerns …