Poison politics
Subtitle: are negative campaigns destroying democracy?
By: Victor Kamber ; foreword by former Senator Paul Simon.
Publisher: Insight Books, Plenum Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Political campaigns -- United States; Advertising, Political -- United States; Negativism
Description: Every campaign season, more trash talk and attack ads dominate the airwaves and more voters subsequently turn off to politics. Why do so many races degenerate into name-calling and negativism? What is the effect on our democracy - our ability to make the right political and policy choices? Poison Politics: Are Negative Campaigns Destroying Democracy? tackles these vital questions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.