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The Symbolic Uses of Politics (book)  

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  • Murray Edelman's classic book, The Symbolic Uses of Politics, has exerted a strong and enduring influence on political communication scholarship since its publication in 1964 and remains an all-time best-seller for the University of Illinois Press. The Symbolic Uses of Politics is the germinal work on symbolic politics as it explores the influence of cultural signs, myths, rites, and other symbolic forms of communication on political involvement and institutions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Symbolic Uses of Politics, the]

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