What are campaigns for? [electronic resource] : the role of persuasion in electoral law and politics / James A. Gardner.

By:

Gardner, James A, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 219 p.)ISBN:

9780199855438 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

324.70973 22

LOC classification:

JK2281 .G37 2009

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: The author explores the contemporary American ideal of democratic citizenship in election campaigns by tracing it to its historical sources, documenting its thorough infiltration of legal norms, evaluating its feasibility in light of the findings of empirical social science, and testing it against the needs of democratic theory.

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The author explores the contemporary American ideal of democratic citizenship in election campaigns by tracing it to its historical sources, documenting its thorough infiltration of legal norms, evaluating its feasibility in light of the findings of empirical social science, and testing it against the needs of democratic theory.