Government Communications and the Crisis of Trust: From Political Spin to Post-truth
In: Springer eBook Collection
Prologue -- Chapter 1: Introduction - How did we get here? -- Chapter 2: Media management - politicians' fatal attraction? -- Chapter 3: The new neolibral governments of the 1980s - subtle and covert changes to 'the rules of the game' -- Chapter 4: The age of political spin' - from Blair to Cameron and beyond -- Chapter 5: Responsiveness - how civil servants were tamed, then bypassed -- Chapter 6: Resistance - how bureaucrats and parliaments pushed back against government 'political spin' -- Chapter 7: Impartiality, accountability and public trust in governments -- Chapter 8: What could good government communication look like? -- Chapter 9: How to rebuild trust in democratic government -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.