The Framing of Terrorist Threat in British Elections, 2005-2007. Co-principal is Ms. Kate Smith (Abertay). Work ongoing and has included the collection of BBC and ITV nightly news during the British 2005 parliamentary campaign and 17 focus groups after the elections to discuss terrorism, elections and the media. Many of the focus groups were held in London just after the July 7 bombings and provide insight into how some groups -- including socially excluded individuals -- reacted to the events and media coverage of the bombings. The research assistant for this grant is Dr Mike Berry at the University of Glasgow.
Citizen or Comrade?: Terrorist Threat in Election Campaigns in Russia and the U.S. (with Monica Postelnicu). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 2005. For a copy, click here:
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/saoates/oates_postelnicu apsa 2005.pdf
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: The Role of Terrorist Threat in Russian Election Campaigns. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2004. For a copy, click here: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/saoates/fear_and_loathing.pdf
Security, Terrorism and the U.K. July 2005. Chatham House Briefing Paper.
Post-Soviet Political Style: Parties, Television and Voters. 2004. In Geir Flikke (ed.) The Uncertainties of Putin’s Democracy (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs 2004), pp. 109-128, ISBN 8270021008
Television and Elections in Russia. Forthcoming March 2006. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0415381347.
A Spiral of Post-Soviet Cynicism: The First Decade of Political Advertising in Russia. Forthcoming 2006. In Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha (eds) Handbook of International Political Advertising. London: SAGE.
Media and Politics. Forthcoming March 2007. Under contract to Sage Publications.
