This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political campaigns and their consequences.

Chapter 1 Studying political campaigns and their effects, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, David M. Farrell; Chapter 2 Calculating or capricious?, Ian McAllister; Chapter 3 When do election campaigns matter, and to whom?, Romain Lachat, Pascal Sciarini; Chapter 4 Campaign effects and media monopoly, Marina Popescu, Gábor Tóka; Chapter 5 Priming and campaign context, Elisabeth Gidengil, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, Richard Nadeau; Chapter 6 Candidate-centred campaigns and their effects in an open list system, Ilkka Ruostetsaari, Mikko Mattila; Chapter 7 Post-Fordism in the constituencies?, David Denver, Gordon Hands; Chapter 8 Do campaign communications matter for civic engagement?, Pippa Norris; Chapter 9 Referendums and elections, Lawrence LeDuc; Chapter 10 Public opinion formation in Swiss federal referendums, Michael Bützer, Lionel Marquis; Chapter 11 Do political campaigns matter?, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, David M. Farrell;

David M. Farrell, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck