Public Opinion, Campaign Politics & Media Audiences: New Australian Perspectives

This timely book investigates the fascinating landscape of media-driven politics through the prisms of ‘public opinion’, political campaigning, and audiences.

From Indigenous voting rights and climate change to talkback radio and right-wing populism, Public Opinion, Campaign Politics & Media Audiences showcases new research in political science, history and media studies. Contributors scrutinise the relationship between polls, party policy and voting behaviour, and evaluate the roles of oratory and the media in electioneering and political communication across Australia, Britain and the United States.

The eight chapters are based on papers delivered at a symposium to honour Murray Goot FASSA, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, on his retirement from Macquarie University.