David B. Magleby (Utah Brigham Young University), Jay Goodliffe (Utah Brigham Young University), Joseph A. Olsen (Utah Brigham Young University)

Who Donates in Campaigns?

The Importance of Message, Messenger, Medium, and Structure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Who Donates to Campaigns? examines data on donors to the 2008 and 2012 presidential election campaigns to demonstrate who is donating and how the internet and campaign finance law have contributed to significant change. This book will be of value to students, scholars, campaign professionals, and journalists and anyone interested in US campaign and elections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781108453714
• ISBN-10: 1108453716
• Artikelnr.: 59391418

Autorenporträt

David B. Magleby is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Utah, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy. He is the editor of a series on the financing of the quadrennial presidential election in the US since 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The importance of donors in American politics
2. Profile of donors in 2008 and 2012
3. What motivates donors to contribute?
4. How the Internet, BCRA, and super PACs have affected campaigns, donor attitudes, and behavior
5. New, repeat, continuing, and lapsed donors
6. What distinguishes small donors?
7. The diminished gender gap among democratic donors
8. The timing of donations in presidential campaigns
9. Policy implications of changing laws, regulations, and of who donates
10. What explains donor behavior?