Going Dirty

The Art of Negative Campaigning

David Mark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2009 | 2nd Revised edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-9981-9 (ISBN)

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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.

David Mark is a senior editor for Politico.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Eye of the Beholder: Defining Negative Campaigning
2. What Good Old Days?: Notable Developments in Negative Campaigning from the Late Eighteenth Century through the Dawn of the Cold War
3. Going Nuclear 1964: The Rise of Television Attack Ads
4. Dismissive Politics: The Governor against the Actor
5. "The Truth Shall Rise Again": Brock Versus Gore for U.S. Senate, 1970
6. Confrontation, Bluster, and No Compromise: The Campaigns of Jesse Helms
7. Dole-Gingrich: Going Negative Early and Often
8. The Politics of Fear: Negative Campaigning in the Post-9/11 World
9. Opening the Floodgates: Campaign Finance "Reform" and the Rise of Negativity
10. A Double-Edged Sword: When Negative Campaigning Backfires
11. Hitting the Mark: Negative Campaigning Efforts that Just Plain Worked
12. It's in the Mail: Negative Campaigning Comes Home
13. Conclusion: The Future of Negative Campaigning
14. A Race to the Bottom: Negative Campaigning in the 2006 Midterm Elections
15. Singe but Don't Burn: Negative Campaigning in the 2008 Presidential Election
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7425-9981-7 / 0742599817
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-9981-9 / 9780742599819
Zustand	Neuware