Election Campaigns

Author : Steven A. Seidman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0820486167

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Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World and Through History by Steven A. Seidman Pdf

How effective are election campaign posters? Providing a unique political history, this book traces the impact that these posters - as well as broadsides, banners, and billboards - have had around the world over the last two centuries. It focuses on the use of this campaign material in the United States, as well as in France, Great Britain, Germany, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, and many other countries. The book examines how posters evolved and discusses their changing role in the twentieth century and thereafter; how technology, education, legislation, artistic movements, advertising, and political systems effected changes in election posters and other campaign media, and how they were employed around the world. This comprehensive and original overview of this campaign material includes the first extensive review of the research literature on the topic. Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion will be useful to scholars and students interested in communications, politics, history, advertising and marketing, art history, and graphic design.

Author : Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864695

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Inside the Campaign by Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson Pdf

Inside the Campaign is a behind-the-scenes look at the people involved in an election campaign and the work they do. Each chapter reveals the duties and obstacles faced during the heat of a campaign. Practitioners and political scientists collaborate to present real-world insights that demystify over a dozen occupations, including campaign chairs, fundraisers, advertisers, platform designers, communication personnel, election administrators, political staff, journalists, and pollsters. Inside the Campaign provides an inside look at, and unparalleled understanding of, the nuts and bolts of running a federal campaign in Canada.

Author : Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Anna Lennox Esselment
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774834513

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Permanent Campaigning in Canada by Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Anna Lennox Esselment Pdf

Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office to backbench MPs practise political marketing and communication as though each day were a battle to win the news cycle. Permanent Campaigning in Canada examines the growth and democratic implications of political parties’ relentless search for votes and popularity and what constant electioneering means for governance. This is the first study of a phenomenon – including the use of public resources for partisan gain – that has become embedded in Canadian politics and government.

Author : Tom Flanagan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773590373

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Winning Power by Tom Flanagan Pdf

Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century. In Winning Power, Tom Flanagan draws on decades of experience teaching political science and managing political campaigns to inform readers about what goes on behind the scenes. While the goal of political campaigning - using persuasion to build a winning coalition - remains constant, the means of achieving that goal are always changing. Flanagan dissects the effects of recent changes in financial regulation and grassroots fundraising, the advent of the "permanent campaign," as well as the increase in negative advertising. He pulls these themes together to show how tactics are employed at specific points in a campaign by providing a firsthand account of his management of the Wildrose Party campaign in Alberta's 2012 provincial election. Lifting the veil of campaign secrecy, he provides a candid account of the successes and mistakes the newly formed party made in an election that nearly toppled the four-decade-long dynasty of Alberta's Progressive Conservatives. Modeling its campaign on the 2006 campaign that brought Stephen Harper to 24 Sussex Drive, Wildrose combined grassroots fundraising, an innovative platform that reached out to its electoral coalition, a carefully scripted leader’s tour, as well as negative and positive advertising in the race towards leadership. Success for the party seemed within reach until breakdowns in message discipline in the campaign’s final week caused the Wildrose tide to ebb. Citing diverse sources such as game theory, evolutionary psychology, and Aristotelian rhetoric, Flanagan explores the timeless aspects of campaigning and emphasizes new strategies of coalition-building. For future campaigners, Winning Power provides textbook illustrations of what does and doesn't work.

Author : Gunn Sara Enli,Hallvard Moe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317397168

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Social Media and Election Campaigns by Gunn Sara Enli,Hallvard Moe Pdf

This book aims to further the research in the fields of social media and political communication by moving beyond the hype and avoiding the most eye-catching and spectacular cases. It looks at stable democracies without current political turmoil, small countries as well as large continents, and minor political parties as well as major ones. Investigating emerging practices in the United States, Europe, and Australia, both on national and local levels, enables us to grasp contemporary tendencies across different regions and countries. The book provides empirical insights into the diverse uses of different social media for political communication in different societies. Contributors look at the ways in which novel arenas connect with other channels for political communication, and how politicians as well as citizens in general use social media services. Presenting state-of-the-art methodological approaches, drawing on a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, the book brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers in order to address emerging practices of the mediation of politics, campaign communication, and issues of citizenship and democracy as expressed on social media platforms. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

Author : Anthony Sayers
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774841429

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Parties, Candidates, and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections by Anthony Sayers Pdf

This important contribution to the study of Canadian elections forcefully argues that knowledge of the dynamics at the local level is essential to a full understanding of Canadian polity, its underlying social basis, and the factors that determine successful election campaigns. As such, Parties, Candidates, and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections will intrigue not only political scientists and students of Canadian politics but also election candidates and party strategists.

Author : Frederick J. Fletcher
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459727533

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Media And Voters In Canadian Election Campaigns by Frederick J. Fletcher Pdf

Taken together, the five studies provide a useful overview of the effectiveness of various forms of campaign communication in informing voters. Much of the material presented here is not readily available elsewhere.

Author : Jens Koed Madsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030221454

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The Psychology of Micro-Targeted Election Campaigns by Jens Koed Madsen Pdf

This book examines the psychology behind micro-targeted tactics used in election campaigning and the advent of increasingly sophisticated dynamic Agent-Based Models (ABMs). It discusses individual profiling, how data and modelling are deployed to enhance the effectiveness of persuasion and mobilization efforts in campaigns, and the potential limitations of these approaches. Madsen particularly explores how psychological insight and personal data are used to generate individualised models of voters and how these in turn are applied to optimise persuasion strategies tailored to a specific person. Finally, the book considers the broader democratic dilemmas raised by the introduction of these tactics into politics and the critical civic importance of understanding how these campaigns function.This timely work offers fresh insights for students and scholars of political psychology, philosophy, political marketing, media, and communications.

Author : Nolan Crouse
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781039114630

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The Political Campaign “How-to” Guide by Nolan Crouse Pdf

“I wasn’t lucky. I deserved it.” - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher The Political Campaign “How-to” Guide is a book that offers step-by-step guidelines on how to win an election as well as providing answers to questions a candidate may have about campaign planning. Whether running for Chief, mayor, reeve, councillor, MLA, MP or trustee in an indigenous, provincial, federal, municipal or school board election, this detailed book will provide candidates with the knowledge they need to run a successful campaign. Nolan Crouse, MBA, CCMP(TM) served as councillor and mayor in Canada for 13 years. In this book, he shares the secrets to his success in winning four consecutive election campaigns. From making the initial decision to run for office, to putting together an effective campaign team and brand, to fundraising, door knocking, message delivery and advertising – all the way to election day and beyond – this book offers valuable tips, insights, knowledge and tactics that have been proven to be useful and effective. Complete with checklists, great stories, images and examples, The Political Campaign “How-to” Guide is a must-read for anyone with an interest in running for public office for the first time or running for re-election in Canada. Most of the key principles also apply to all orders of elected office in the United States and many other democracies around the world.

Author : David V. J. Bell,Frederick J. Fletcher,Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing
Publisher : Dundurn Group (CA)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015028894692

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Reaching the Voter by David V. J. Bell,Frederick J. Fletcher,Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing Pdf

Author : John Laschinger
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459736559

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Campaign Confessions by John Laschinger Pdf

A National Bestseller! Canada’s Only Full-Time Political Campaign Manager — 50 Campaigns in 45 Years with 30 Victories John Laschinger opens the doors to the backrooms and war rooms of the political campaigns he has run, providing lessons for aspiring campaign managers, and exposing what really happens behind the scenes.

Author : Henry E. Brady,Richard G. C. Johnston
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472023035

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Capturing Campaign Effects by Henry E. Brady,Richard G. C. Johnston Pdf

Capturing Campaign Effects is the definitive study to date of the influence of campaigns on political culture. Comprising a broad exploration of campaign factors (debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls) and their effects (priming, learning, and persuasion), as well as an impressive survey of techniques for the collection and analysis of campaign data, Capturing Campaign Effects examines different kinds of campaigns in the U.S. and abroad and presents strong evidence for significant campaign effects. "Capturing Campaign Effects is an accessible and penetrating account of modern scholarship on electoral politics. It draws critical insights from a range of innovative analyses." --Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan "What a wonderful way to usher in the new era of election studies! This book spotlights fascinating paradoxes in the literature of voting behavior, highlights many promising approaches to resolving those paradoxes, and shows how these strategies can yield important findings with terrific payoffs for our understanding of contemporary democracy. Fasten your seatbelts, folks: scholarship on elections is about to speed up thanks to this collection of great essays." --Jon Krosnick, Stanford University "The past decade has seen a renewed interest in understanding campaign effects. How and when do voters learn? Does the election campaign even matter at all? Capturing Campaign Effects draws on leading political scientists to address these matters. The result is a collection that will become the major reference for the study of campaigns. The lesson that emerges is that campaigns do affect voter decision making, usually for the better." --Robert S. Erikson, Columbia University Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, and Director of the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Johnston is Professor and Head of Political Science and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

Author : William J. Feltus,Kenneth M. Goldstein,Matthew Dallek
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506332987

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Inside Campaigns by William J. Feltus,Kenneth M. Goldstein,Matthew Dallek Pdf

Inside Campaigns: Elections Through the Eyes of Political Professionals offers readers a detailed, thoroughly researched examination of U.S. political campaigns. Through the eyes of more than 100 campaign managers and political professionals, it takes a behind-the-scenes look at the ways campaigns are managed, the strategies that are employed, the roles played by both staff and the candidates, and all the ways campaigns affect election outcomes. The expert author team of William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, and Matthew Dallek provide guidance drawn from actual campaign case studies, contribute their own data-backed assessment of the current state of modern political campaign management, and offer a trove of observations and war stories. Interviewees include high-profile professionals such as David Axelrod, Ken Mehlman, James Carville, and Kevin Sheekey, as well as lesser-known political journeymen and women who manage America’s state and local campaigns. Democrats and Republicans are evenly represented, giving students a balanced, unique and valuable insight into how campaigns operate.

Author : David M. Farrell,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134520411

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Do Political Campaigns Matter? by David M. Farrell,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck Pdf

This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political campaigns and their consequences.

Author : David Taras,Richard Davis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472902699

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Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics by David Taras,Richard Davis Pdf

Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multimedia world through traditional forums—newspapers, radio, and television—as well as new digital media, particularly social media. Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics chronicles how Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, email, and memes are used successfully and unsuccessfully to influence elections. Each of these platforms have different affordances and reach various audiences in different ways. Campaigns often have to wage different campaigns on each of these mediums. In some instances, they are crucial in altering coverage in the mainstream media. In others, digital media remains underutilized and undeveloped. As has always been the case in politics, outcomes that depend on economic and social conditions often dictate people’s readiness for certain messages. However, the method and content of those messages has changed with great consequences for the health and future of democracy. This book answers several questions: How do candidates/parties reach audiences that are preoccupied, inattentive, amorphous, and bombarded with so many other messages? How do they cope with the speed of media reporting in a continuous news cycle that demands instantaneous responses? How has media fragmentation altered the campaign styles and content of campaign communication, and general campaign discourse? Finally and most critically, what does this mean for how democracies function?