The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake critically analyzes the 2016 presidential election. The chapters in this book identify key factors behind the election of Donald J. Trump, explore the unconventional campaign, analyze the unexpected election result, evaluate the forecasting models, and speculate on the effect of the election outcome on politics and governance in the Trump Administration.

Understand the theoreticaland practicalaspects of political marketing!Over the past few years political marketing strategies have been refined with the help of new findings in political science research. Campaigns and Political Marketing clearly discusses the most recent political science research studies and theories that political activists and professionals can apply to effectively campaign for an issue or candidate. This text is an invaluable compilation of research, theory, an...

In the news business and politics, they're called sound bites. In advertising, they're called slogans or tag lines, depending on their placement and use. For movies, they're called log lines. On books, they're titles or subtitles. For people, they're monikers.All of these scrumptious word morsels do the job of summarizing in a catchy, memorable phrase or sentence a message, an identity or a positioning statement.This concise, practical workbook takes you step by step throug...

Communication with customers and prospects keeps your business on the growth track. There are numerous ways to convey your company's message beyond traditional advertising."Tune Up Your Publicity Machine" covers the basics of public relations like how to prepare an effective press release and make it appeal to editors as well as where to look in your business for newsworthy topics."Case Study: Automotive Aftermarket" tells how custom car shops use shows and events to public...

Marketing is critical to business success. Whether you are new to marketing or not, this book will help you understand marketing and apply it to your business.Packed with practical ideas, this book will help you find out how to create a great brand, how to establish your target audience, where to find them and how to communicate. Read it to help you determine your business’s unique selling points and understand how to plan your marketing.Learn basic sales strategies that ti...

Never Be Confused About Music Publicity Again!This ebook features Section 3 of the highly acclaimed Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook.Here's a glimpse at what you get:=> 32 Ways to Get Exposure for Yourself, Your Band, or Your New Music Release -- This chapter is jam-packed with real-world, creative promotion strategies that songwriters and musicians have used to get noticed. By the end of this section, you'll have an endless list of ways you can attract attention ...

Thoroughly updated with information on Internet-based PR campaignsThe Publicity Handbook has everything you need to know to win valuable publicity for your product, service or business. Includes step-by-step information on setting objectives and designing an integrated publicity plan, writing press releases, fact sheets and feature stories for all different types of media, as well as extensive checklists and a complete breakdown of sources and services ava...

The Future of Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management brings together an outstanding group of public relations scholars and practitioners to consider the indelible theory building in public relations of James E. Grunig and Larissa A. Grunig, who with David M. Dozier, produced the 1992 IABC Excellence Study, a benchmark body of work examining best practices in the public relations field. In this assembled collection, editor Elizabeth L. Toth and the contributors...

In today's turbulent world, the issue isn't if crisis will occur, but when. Do you know how to prepare for, navigate through and recover from crisis? Can you turn adversity into advantage? This book holds the key. In his decades on the core executive teams of the Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Department of Justice and for Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., Rob Weinhold learned a basic truism: the strengths and shortcomings of leaders are never more magnified than during life's most difficul...

Corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company’s number one asset—its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations results in lost credibility and trust on a global basis in front of many target audiences: customers, employees, vendors, business partners, the media, analysts covering the company, lend...

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.

International Public Relations: Negotiating Culture, Identity, and Power offers the first critical-cultural approach to international public relations theory and practice. Authors Patricia A. Curtin and T. Kenn Gaither introduce students to a cultural-economic model and to the accompanying practice matrix to explain public relations techniques and practices in a variety of regulatory, political, and cultural climates.Key Features:...