Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for UsPrinceton University Press, 1 juil. 2009 - 328 pages Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world. |
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... Voice CHAPTER 8 The People's Voice CHAPTER 9 Campaign Reflections APPENDIX 1 The DICTION Program APPENDIX 2 Statistical Notes APPENDIX 3 Sampling Details. Contents. ✼ ✼ Notes Index 269 299 Contents.
... Voice over Time 7.5 Detachment vs. News Story Focus 8.1 Embellishment Scores across Time 8.2 The People As Intermediary 37 40 54 55 67 88 97 110 127 136 145 156 165 175 177 181 183 191 209 210 List ✼ of Tables ✼ 5.1 Hybridized Nature ...
... people's voice). Texts collected from each of the thirteen presidential elections between 1948 and 1996 are now housed in DICTION's database, and this book is the result of those labors. Many people are suspicious of computers ...
... Voice and Equality, and Steven Rosenstone and Mark Hansen's Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America have told us much about what the American people think when thinking politically.8 But a political campaign is more than ...
... people say about governance is important. Mapping the language of democracy—across time and circumstance, across voice and medium, across candidate and party—provides a useful cultural reconnoitering even as it becomes an exercise in ...