The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda

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Paul Baines is Professor of Political Marketing and Associate Dean (Business and Civic Engagement) at the University of Leicester. He is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University and an Associate Fellow at Kings College London. He is author/co-author of more than a hundred published articles book chapters and books on political marketing issues. Over the last 23 years Pauls research has focused on political marketing public opinion and propaganda. He is a Fellow of the Market Research Society and the Institute of Directors (IOD). He holds bachelors masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Manchester a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from Middlesex University and an MSc in Quantitative Methods for Science Social Science and Medicine from Lancaster University. Pauls teaching has encompassed undergraduate postgraduate and post-experience levels including MBA and executive MBA teaching in the US UK Canada Sweden Finland UAE Saudi Arabia Malaysia Singapore Russia and Cyprus across a number of aspects of marketing political marketing and PR. Paul is (co-)editor/(co-)author of numerous marketing texts including with Chris Fill Sara Rosengren and Paolo Antonetti the best-seller Marketing 5E (Oxford University Press 2019) and Fundamentals of Marketing 2E (Oxford University Press 2021 in press) also with Chris Fill Sara Rosengren and Paolo Antonetti Political Marketing (Sage Publications 2011) Propaganda (Sage Publications 2013) and with Sir Robert Worcester Roger Mortimore and Mark Gill the polling treatise Explaining Camerons Catastrophe (Indie Publishing 2017). Pauls research/strategy consultancy includes experience working with numerous government departments on strategic communication research projects as well as small medium and large private enterprises including IBM 3M Saint Gobain Glassolutions Fulham Football Club and many others. He is a non-executive director of the Business Continuity Institute and operates his own strategic marketing and market research consultancy Baines Associates Limited. Previous work for UK and US government clients has looked at inter alia fear and guilt appeals and their persuasive application in communications by terrorist groups and how we might counter those communications. Ongoing research work includes grant funding for a project to evaluate the effectiveness of police social marketing/counter-terrorism communications. Nicholas OShaughnessy is Professor of Communication at Queen Mary University of London. He holds degrees from London Oxford Columbia and Cambridge Universities. Nicholas research focus is on political marketing and propaganda and he is the author and co-author of numerous journal articles and a Senior Editor of the Journal of Political Marketing. Nicholas is the author of two classic texts in the field of political marketing The Phenomenon of Political Marketing and Propaganda and Politics: Weapons of Mass Seduction. Nicholas is a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts