The object of this clarification is to offer a reader imperfectly familiar with the work of French political science ([1] ) an overview of research carried out in the field of “ political communication” ([2] ). The theme has long remained fairly marginal in France. Thus, only four articles on these questions can be found in the Revue franç aise de Science Politique in the 1980s. “ Communication” has only played a significant role in political science for about ten years. years . If phe nome do reflects you growing up interactions with mé dia s political life, it also reflects a inte rê growing t the younger gen born ration political scientists franç boards for these problems my. It is significant that Politix, a journal launched at the end of the 1980s by young researchers from Paris 1, the first publication vector for this research, with nearly twenty articles published over the past ten years (See Politix , 36 , 1996). The shift of the journal words based e by linguists, but e Largie to other spe cialists Science Social since 1989, also é té opportunity of a stream of publications ed equivalent, especially through various tea matic numbers ( Mots , 20, 1989; 37, 1993). By integrating the articles published fairly regularly by the journals Pouvoirs ( especially nos . 63, 199) and Hermè s (1991, 1995), but also the Revue Française de Science Politique and various sociology or science journals. communication, can be at Prè s seventy the number of articles published on this thè me since 1990 in the main social science journals. The production of theses and books followed an identical evolution. It is now possible to speak without emphasis of a community of French researchers in this field.
Linking franç work ais to reche rch ed strange res is not without difficulty s. Obvious convergences exist in the questions. They concern the nature of the relationship between journalists and politicians, the effects of political posts, the weight of campaigns e electoral e s in voting behavior. But there are also differences. A large number of Anglo-Saxon works develop these reflections from a material made up of electoral campaigns (Blumler & Gurevitch, 1995). The research franç ease are more often support on other grounds: é mission tee lé political vision beyond the contexts e ELECTORALFACTS, books of politicians (as a politician franç ais can not pre tend to high responsibility s without ed wrote a clea or e urs books ...). While some British studies (Glasgow Media Group) or amé Ricans (W. Gamson) focus on formal dimensions of the posts, anchoring the dominant international research remains sociological while re fe rences of i sciplinaires of research franç ease are more diverse, in particular due to a seiological legacy . The overview proposed here will therefore first seek to locate the particularities of the intellectual environment of French research . It p re then re Sentera research Centes by grouping them around a few large problem matic. This pre presentation will seek to reconcile two conflicting objectives: give the player é abroad as panoptic vision as possible chanti e rs, authors, journals, while searching for combinations. The risk of such a choice is to put more order in the academic world than exists. We will try to do this without excessive simplifications. One final Part I seek to ident i proud, beyond differences, convergence lines both in research conducted 're in France and in the joint at the community international researchers.
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