Louis Sandy Maisel, Darrell M. West, Brett M. Clifton

Evaluating Campaign Quality

Can the Electoral Process Be Improved?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780521700825
• ISBN-10: 0521700825
• Artikelnr.: 22582855

Autorenporträt

A former candidate for Congress and a Democratic party activist, L. Sandy Maisel is the author of From Obscurity to Oblivion: Running in the Congressional Primary, Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process and Two Parties - Or More? The American Party System with John Bibby. Among the books he has edited and contributed to are: The Parties Respond: Changes in American Parties and Campaigns, Jews in American Politics, and Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Maisel also serves as editor for the new On Politics series, published by Paradigm Publishers. He and his wife, Patrice Franko, are currently at work on a book entitled Fore and After: Signature Holes and Signature Dishes from the World's Great Golf Resorts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Campaign reformers: optimists, skeptics, and rejectionists
2. Dissemination of campaign practices
3. Impact on campaign conduct
4. Impact on campaign discourse
5. Impact on public perceptions
6. Improving the system
Appendices: A. Data and methodology
B. Public opinion survey
C. Consultant survey
D. Focus group protocol.

Rezensionen

"The desire to reform our political campaigns to improve the quality and discourse is high and enduring. Reformers have not lacked ideas or programs to do so, and many have been implemented in different states and localities around the country. The efforts have been admirable-- but the real question is not whether reforms like candidate forums or voluntary codes of conduct have been implemented, but whether they work. The authors of Evaluating Campaign Quality, all top-flight political scientists, have done the hard and systematic work to see what works and what doesn't. The finding are sobering, but with real take-home value for candidates, campaign consultants, scholars and voters alike. Anybody involved in campaigns or interested in democracy will benefit from this book." Norm Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute