Political Communication

Sarah Sanderson King is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of Human Communication as a Field of Study: Selected Contemporary Views, published by SUNY Press; Effective Communication Skills: An Interactional Approach; and Effective Communication: Theory into Action. Donald P. Cushman is Professor of Communication at the State University of New York at Albany. He has co-authored or edited three books including Organizational Communication: Issues, Problems, and Trends; Communication in Interpersonal Relationships, published by SUNY Press, and Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationships.

"This book has a unique communication drama analysis which provides insight into complex political/economic/social changes in an important area of the world. The events happening now in communist countries would rank among the most significant changes of this century, and will have implications far into the next century as well. The book will prove of interest to scholars and students in many disciplines, including such diverse disciplines as communication, political science, and history, not to mention practitioners in politics, international business, and world trade. The analyses show both a careful attention to detail combined with an interpretive insight that is astute if not brilliant." — Richard J. Dieker, Western Michigan University

• Preface Contributors PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Role of Communication in Engineering Political, Economic, and Social InstitutionsSarah S. King and Donald P. Cushman PART II. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE 2. The Rhetoric of Circumstance: The Case of Poland, 1980-1990Rowland Baughman and Andrjez Kozminski 3. Yugoslavia: Ethnic Dramas Without DenouementBranislav Kovacic and Bozidar Travica 4. Communication and Power: A Short History of the Armenian National MovementLucig H. Danielian 5. Communication in the Failed Student MovementGuo-Ping Fei and Xu Yu PART III. IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND RHETORIC 6. The Role of Mass Communication Processes in Producing Upheavals in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and ChinaRobert E. Sanders 7. The Communication of Cultural Memory and the Reconstitution of SocietyGerard A. Hauser 8. Visions of Order in Poland, Yugoslavia, Armenia, and ChinaDonald P. Cushman and Sarah S. King