... Crisis communication Foreign policy Leadership Propaganda Public sector Upon these conceptual foundations, European public diplomacy is shaped according to the preferences of countries and institutions. Thus, the following research question is posed: what effect have the six most crucial...

... Bernays, widely considered a pioneer in the field of public relations, exhibited a somewhat halting evolution in thought concerning the role of the new public relations professional. From 1920 through 1927, he normally described the public relations counsel as using propaganda to move masses toward...

... This study uses semi‐structured élite interviews as its primary data. The study structures a historical account of the development of republican public relations around three main phases: the “propaganda of the deed” phase; the development of political public relations phase; and the peace process phase...

...Johanna Fawkes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review public relations and related literature to examine attitudes to persuasion and propaganda as part of a long‐term project to produce an integrated ethical framework. Design/methodology/approach A critical approach to existing...

...Juyan Zhang; Glen T. Cameron In this historical analysis, Jacques Ellul’s theory of propaganda is applied to analyse the changes of China’s propaganda. It is found that China’s propaganda is undergoing structural transformations from depending on human organisation to extensive control and use...