The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy - Couverture rigide

Simon, Adam F.

 
9780521807333: The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521807336 ISBN 13 : 9780521807333
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This study investigates candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? The project takes an innovative approach to answering this question by bringing together critical and empirical methods as well as game theory in a sophisticated yet readable text. The answer comes in four parts. First, Simon develops the idea of dialogue as a standard for evaluating political campaigns. Second, he shows that candidates' self-interest in winning leads them to avoid dialogue, that is substantive campaign discourse. Third, he demonstrates the beneficial effects produced by the little dialogue that actually occurs. Fourth, he pinpoints the forces responsible for these rare occurrences. The major lesson of this work is that campaign reform under its present guise will not bring about the more substantive campaigns that the public desires.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This study investigates candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? The project takes an innovative approach to answering this question by bringing together critical and empirical methods as well as game theory in a sophisticated yet readable text. The answer comes in four parts. First, Simon develops the idea of dialogue as a standard for evaluating political campaigns. Second, he shows that candidates' self-interest in winning leads them to avoid dialogue, that is substantive campaign discourse. Third, he demonstrates the beneficial effects produced by the little dialogue that actually occurs. Fourth, he pinpoints the forces responsible for these rare occurrences. The major lesson of this work is that campaign reform under its present guise will not bring about the more substantive campaigns that the public desires.

Revue de presse

"Recommended for upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research libraries." Choice

"The deliberative character of political campaigns is an important subject worthy of careful and serious attention, which is what it receives in Adam Simon's The Winning Message." Perspectives on Politics

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521807336
ISBN 13 
9780521807333
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
198
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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9780521001915: The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521001919 ISBN 13 :  9780521001915
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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