"How can media framing constrain public discussion? How do partisan pressures warp congressional debate? How can political conversations change how people think about candidates? Political Communication and Deliberation provides a unifying conceptual framework that allows readers to organize and understand these and other political communication questions. This text takes a unique approach in viewing key concepts and research through the lens of deliberative democratic theory. This provides a fresh perspective on familiar topics (such as media systems, public opinion, and political campaigns), and it brings to the foreground new research on public meetings, community deliberation, international discourse, and more."--BOOK JACKET.