This edited collection examines the changing faces of political communication in contemporary democracy. Based on comparative investigations of recent trends in the Netherlands and Great Britain, the essays provide fresh insights and new empirical evidence into the public representation of media-centred politics.

MAUD ADRIAANSEN PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands TOM BAKKER PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands JAY BLUMLER Emeritus Emeritus Professor of Public Communication at the University of Leeds, UK HAJO G. BOOMGAARDEN Assistant Professor for Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands JELLE W. BOUMANS Graduate of the Research Master Programme in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ROBIN BROWN Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK VALENTINA CARDO Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK STEPHEN COLEMAN Professor of Political Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK JOHN CORNER Visiting Professor in the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leeds and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Liverpool, UK JOS DE BEUS Professor of Political Theory, Culture and History at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands CLAES DE VREESE Professor of Political Communication and Scientific Director of The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR, the Netherlands MATHIJS ELENBAAS PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands TODD GRAHAM Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Journalism Studies and Media, University of Groningen, the Netherlands ANKE KUIK Masters graduate in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands DAVID MORRISON Professor of Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, the University of Leeds, UK CHRIS PATERSON Lecturer in the Institute of Communications Studies of the University of Leeds, UK JUDITH STAMPER Principal Teaching Fellow in Broadcast Journalism at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK PHILIP VAN PRAAG Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bachelor programme in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands LIESBET VAN ZOONEN Chair in Media and Communication at Loughborough University, UK RENS VLIEGENTHART Assistant Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands JANELLE WARD Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands SIMEON YATES Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, UK