CHRISTINA HOLTZ-BACHA is Professor and Chair in Communication Science at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. She has published widely on political communication and the media in German and international journals, includingThe Sage Handbook of Political Advertising (co-edited, 2006), The Professionalisation of Political Communication (co-edited, 2007) and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Political Communication (co-edited, 2008).
JESPER STROMBACK is Lubbe NordstrOm Professor and Chair in Journalism as well as Professor in Media and Communication at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. His booksinclude The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World (co-edited, 2008), Communicating Politics: Political Communication in the Nordic Countries (co-edited, 2008), and Global Political Marketing (co-edited, 2009).
