Pre-Election Campaign Communication and Publicity: Political Phenomenon, Structure, and Functions

Abstract

From political practitioners’ point of view the pre-election campaign publicity is a complicated political phenomenon and at the same time the process built upon the rules of political communication that fulfills a number of consistent functions during campaign. Among these functions are: political party, new election bloc or separate candidate’s name identification; election bloc and can didate’s im age building; election platform identification, issue development and exploitation; campaign messages symbolization and advertising as well as others. The author came to the conclusion that these types of factors in most cases motivate voter choices in elections in Ukraine.