What are campaigns for? the role of persuasion in electoral law and politics

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 t...

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Main Author: Gardner, James A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2009, c2009
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