Problems of Public Relations Historiography and Perspectives of a Functional-Integrative Stratification Model

UK Government Communication: The Cameron years and their ongoing legacy

“…Where individuals can be identified because of their role, or where their specific contribution is appropriate, permission to quote them has been obtained. This primary research has been supplemented by secondary sources including the academic literature, original Government papers such as Reports from the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Government's Annual Communication Plans, internal briefing documents and other public documents available on the GCS website at https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/ As mentioned in the introduction, the theoretical lens is historiological (Watson, 2014;Bentele, 2015;L'Etang, 2015)…”

“…This was the first time such an appointment was made, and fittingly, for this paper, exactly 60 years before the end of the Cameron administration. Figure 1 below offers such a periodization (Bentele, 2015) Take in Figure 1 here Having laid out and discussed the changes that have occurred in the GCS between 2010 and 2016 within their historical context and having considered their ongoing impact, what conclusions can be drawn?…”

“…The theoretical approach to the paper is historiological, but it is not purely descriptive. It seeks to offer an explanatory perspective offering a 60 year periodisation viewpoint (Bentele, 2015) of UK Government Communication from 1956 to 2016 and this, along with the detailed analysis of the Cameron years, is its original contribution.…”

Reassessing the Relationship between Marketing and Public Relations

“…the way(s) in which PR history is written (Bentele, 2013a(Bentele, , 2013b(Bentele, , 2015. the way(s) in which PR history is written (Bentele, 2013a(Bentele, , 2013b(Bentele, , 2015.…”

“…Bentele (Bentele, 1997;2013a, 2013bBentele & Wehmeier, 2009) which argues that at a functional level PR historiography should be developed in a context of superordinate societal subsystems such as politics, economy, culture, etc. It also should be integrative in the sense that it should be developed in a context of neighboring fields of public communication (journalism, advertising).…”