The Propaganda Society analyzes the rapid expansion of propaganda and promotional activities in
the leading «post-industrial» states under the regime of neoliberalism. With the outsourcing of
manufacturing these states have converted to service selling and speculative economies with
a concurrent rapid growth of advertising marketing public relations sales management
branding and other promotional enterprises. Aided by digital technologies and the removal -
«deregulation» - of political legal administrative and moral barriers to state and corporate
expansion on a global scale a group of dominant political and commercial actors have brought
about a common discourse and convergent set of practices rooted in sophisticated and
unprecedented levels of propaganda and promotion. Written by leading scholars in the field
each of the eighteen chapters in this book discuss the ways in which elite uses of propaganda
have radically transformed media and information systems political and public culture the
conduct of war and foreign relations and the overall behavior of the state.
