High-Tech Grass Roots The Professionalization of Local Elections

Name: High-Tech Grass Roots The Professionalization of Local Elections
Price: 5.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780742517660

ISBN-10: 0742517667

ISBN-13: 9780742517660

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cherie J. Strachan

List price: $49.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $42.68

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Election campaigns in small and mid-sized electoral districts have been run from the grass roots from the beginning of the republic. Yard signs, door-to-door canvassing, and soap-box oratory have characterized state and local elections for years, and many predict their persistence into the 21st century. This book looks at new trends in small-town politics, tracking the infiltration of sophisticated communications technology, the use of political consultants, and the increase in fundraising and campaign expenditures. Original surveys, interviews, and in-depth case studies lead the author to conclude that the new tactics are with us to stay, but that their potentially negative effects--rising…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.78" wide x 8.98" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Latest Trends in U.S. Political Campaigns



How Are Local Candidates Campaigning for Office?



Why Are Local Candidates Adopting New-Style Campaign Strategies?



How Will Encroaching Campaign Sophistication Affect the Health of Democracy?



Electoral Reform from the Grass Roots



A Detailed Account of Data Collection



Summarizing Campaign Sophistication


References


Index


About the Author