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What is wrong with American political campaigns? How could the campaign process be improved? This volume brings the expertise of leading political scientists to the public debate about campaign reform. These scholars probe the reality behind the conventional wisdom that nasty, vacuous campaigns dominated by big money and cynical media coverage are perverting our political process and alienating our citizenry. <p>Some of their conclusions will be startling to campaigners and critics alike. For example, "attack" advertisements prove to be no more effective than self-promotional advertisements, but <i>are</i> more substantive. Indeed, candidates in their advertisements and speeches focus more on policy and less on strategy and process than any major news outlet, including the <i>New York Times</i>. The volume suggests that, as a result, prospective voters in 1996 knew more about the candidates' issue positions than in any presidential election in decades, yet turnout and public faith in the electoral process continued to decline.</p> <p>For aspiring reformers, Bartels and his colleagues provide a bracing reality check. For students and scholars of electoral politics, political communi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Vavreck, Lynn; Bartels, Larry M.
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472097319
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Government & Politics
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