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Candidate-centered campaigns : political messages, winning personalities, and personal appeals

Title
Candidate-centered campaigns : political messages, winning personalities, and personal appeals / Brian Arbour.
Author
Arbour, Brian
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Description
xvii, 204 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Modern campaign messages do not typically focus on a candidate's issue stances and policy proposals. Instead, campaigns use personal stories about candidates reveal greater narratives. Campaigns tell stories about their candidates to make their candidate more credible and likeable, essential first steps toward winning votes. Most studies of campaign advertising by political scientists have focused on the issue agendas of political campaigns, sharing the assumption that campaigns are about what candidates will do. As a result, political science has not sufficiently examined the role of candidate-centered characteristics in the campaign message development process. Candidate Centered Campaigns shows how voters assess candidates as they would a new neighbor or co-worker to determine much they like and trust this person. Only after establishing this trust will voters consider what the candidate's policy plans are, making candidate-based campaigns key to winning the vote. "--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Role of the Candidate in Campaign Messages -- 2. Why Campaigns Use Candidate-Centered Messages -- 3. Candidates and Campaign Planning -- 4. The Use of Candidate-Centered Appeals -- 5. The Types of Candidate-Centered Appeals -- 6. Candidate-Centered Appeals and Personal Issues -- 7. The Effect of Candidate-Centered Appeals -- 8. Candidate-Centered Appeals and Citizens.
Call Number
JFD 14-637
ISBN
  • 9781137398604 (hardback)
  • 1137398604 (hardback)
LCCN
2014002925
OCLC
873726277
Author
Arbour, Brian, author.
Title
Candidate-centered campaigns : political messages, winning personalities, and personal appeals / Brian Arbour.
Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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