Going Dirty (eBook)

The Art of Negative Campaigning

David Mark (Autor)

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2009 | 2., Updated Edition
300 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-9982-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new negative campaign strategies were introduced, or existing tactics were refined and amplified upon. Strategies have included labeling opponents from non-traditional political backgrounds as dumb or lightweight, an approach that got upended when a veteran actor and rookie candidate named Ronald Reagan won the California governorship in 1966, setting him on a path to the White House. The negative tone of campaigns has also been ratcheted up dramatically since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: Campaign commercials now routinely run pictures of international villains and suggest, sometimes overtly, at other times more subtly, that political opponents are less than resolute in prosecuting the war on terror. The book also outlines a series of races in which negative campaigning has backfired, because the charges were not credible or the candidate on the attack did not understand the political sentiments of the local electorate they were trying to persuade. The effect of newer technologies on negative campaigning is also examined, including blogs and Web video, in addition to tried and true methods like direct mail.

Autor

David Mark is a senior editor for Politico.

Inhalt

1 Table of Contents2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1. Eye of the Beholder: Defining Negative CampaigningChapter 4 2. What Good Old Days?: Notable Developments in Negative Campaigning from the Late Eighteenth Century through the Dawn of the Cold WarChapter 5 3. Going Nuclear 1964: The Rise of Television Attack AdsChapter 6 4. Dismissive Politics: The Governor against the ActorChapter 7 5. "The Truth Shall Rise Again": Brock Versus Gore for U.S. Senate, 1970Chapter 8 6. Confrontation, Bluster, and No Compromise: The Campaigns of Jesse HelmsChapter 9 7. Dole-Gingrich: Going Negative Early and OftenChapter 10 8. The Politics of Fear: Negative Campaigning in the Post-9/11 WorldChapter 11 9. Opening the Floodgates: Campaign Finance "Reform" and the Rise of NegativityChapter 12 10. A Double-Edged Sword: When Negative Campaigning BackfiresChapter 13 11. Hitting the Mark: Negative Campaigning Efforts that Just Plain WorkedChapter 14 12. It's in the Mail: Negative Campaigning Comes HomeChapter 15 13. Conclusion: The Future of Negative CampaigningChapter 16 14. A Race to the Bottom: Negative Campaigning in the 2006 Midterm ElectionsChapter 17 15. Singe but Don't Burn: Negative Campaigning in the 2008 Presidential Election18 Selected Bibliography19 Index20 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Campaigns and Elections • Media and politics • political communication
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-9982-5 / 0742599825
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-9982-6 / 9780742599826