TY - GEN AU - Sisodia, Yatindra Singh (ed) TI - Political communication in contemporary India: Locating democracy and governance SN - 9781032667690 PY - 2024/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge India KW - Political Science KW - Political communication-India KW - Governance N1 - Table of Contents 1. Political Communication in Contemporary India: An Introduction Part I: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Political Communication 2.Governance in Post-Liberalisation India: The Grey Zone of Political Communication 3. Democracy, Public Sphere and Participation in India: A Philosophical Enquiry Through the Theory of Communicative Action of Habermas Part II: Political Communication During Elections 4. Uttar Pradesh: Political Communication Strategies of Mayawati and Akhilesh 5. Changing Dynamics of Political Electioneering in India: Use of New Social Media in Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 Part III: Cultural and Linguistic Dimension of Political Communication in Indian Democracy 6. Rhetoric in Democracy: Inventing and ReInventing Language for Identity Politics 7. Personalisation of Politics: Shifting Paradigm of Democracy in Digital Age 8. Theorizing Communication of Electoral Slogans in Indian General Election- A Case Study Part IV: Federal and Administrative Dimension of Political Communication 9. Between ‘National’ and ‘Federal’ Communication: Locating the Issue of Bangladeshi Migrant in West Bengal since 2014 10. Locating the ‘Citizen’ in Administrative Communication in India: A Case Study of ‘Mission Nirmal Bangla’ 11. Panchayat Elections and Political Communication: A Study from Gram Panchayats of Telangana State Part V: Diversity in Political Communication in Contemporary India 12. Gleaning Political Communication through ‘Notices’ in North East India 13. Whose Communication is it Anyway?: Analysing Socio-Political Debates in Indian Tele-media 14. Negotiating the Political in the Community Radio Landscape in India: A Brief Sketch 15. Democratising Political Communication for Governance in the New Normal Times. N2 - This book explores the forms, patterns, and trends in political communication in India in the twenty-first century. It underlies the influence of context in political messaging laying bare its complex, overlapping, and multidimensional structures. The volume: Examines how political decision-making is shaped by media — through political speeches, community opinion leaders, and formal and informal public conversations. Explores a range of political communication channels— from community radio to social media. Presents an overview of the problems associated with message designing and message dissemination through communication channels in a political setting. Highlights how political communication impacts critical aspects of democracy and governance and goes beyond mere rhetoric. A comprehensive work on the production, diffusion, transmission, and impact of information in a political environment, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, governance, democracy, media and communication studies, journalism, cultural studies, and South Asian studies ER -