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Campaign ads are inescapable, especially in election years. Asking Questions about Political Campaigns shows what goes into those ads, how successful campaigns get their messages across, and how political campaigns and the media influence each other. Case studies prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of specific issues. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information...
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The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest's outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes- demographic, technological, and economic- surfacing in American society. This volume, consisting of writings by leading scholars of American politics and the American...
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Con razón o sin ella, la prensa está sujeta al escrutinio de la opinión pública y de los actores políticos. Los candidatos y sus voceros la culpan de su poca o nula aceptación de los votantes. ¿Son válidos esos cuestionamientos? ¿Puede o debe un medio de comunicación hacer la tarea que no realizan los dirigentes de una agrupación política -por ejemplo, difundir sus planteamientos programáticos-? ¿Cómo calificar el rol que cumplieron...
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"Winner of the 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology in 2008, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association" D. Sunshine Hillygus is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and director of the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University. Todd G. Shields is professor of political science at the University of Arkansas and director of the Diane D. Blair Center for Southern...
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This book examines five elections in Trinidad and Tobago over a ten-year period from 2000 to 2010 and, on the basis of this, works through some critical issues related to media and politics in the Caribbean. This is a pioneering study, with solid research and insightful analysis, which reads well. Indrani Bachan-Persad has made an important contribution to our understanding and appreciation of media and politics in the Caribbean, locating her discussion...
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From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the one whose every provocative tweet set the agenda for the day's news coverage. With the arrival of Bot Farms, micro targeted Facebook ads, and Cambridge Analytica, isn't the age of political ads on local TV coming to a close?
You might think. But you'd be wrong to the tune of $4.4 billion just in 2016. In...
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