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What are campaigns for? : the role of persuasion in electoral law and politics / James A. Gardner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, James A., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political campaigns--United States.
- Political campaigns.
- Election law--United States.
- Election law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author explores the contemporary American ideal of democratic citizenship in election campaigns by tracing it to its historical sources, documenting its thorough infiltration of legal norms, evaluating its feasibility in light of the findings of empirical social science, and testing it against the needs of democratic theory.
- Contents:
- The political campaign : emergence of the deliberative ideal
- Election law and the formation of public opinion
- Campaigns and the stability of political opinion
- Democratic theory and the thin election campaign
- The tabulative campaign.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-985543-9
- 1-282-73122-X
- 9786612731228
- 0-19-974520-X
- OCLC:
- 455551433
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