What are campaigns for?
Subtitle: the role of persuasion in electoral law and politics
By: James A. Gardner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780195392616
Subjects: Political campaigns -- United States; Election law -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political campaign : emergence of the deliberative ideal; title: Election law and the campaign-exogeneity of public opinion; title: Campaigns and the stability of political opinion; title: Democratic theory and the thin election campaign; title: The tabulative campaign.