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Poison politics : are negative campaigns destroying democracy? / Victor Kamber ; foreword by former Senator Paul Simon.
- Title
- Poison politics : are negative campaigns destroying democracy? / Victor Kamber ; foreword by former Senator Paul Simon.
- Author
- Kamber, Victor
- Publication
- New York : Insight Books, Plenum Press, c1997.
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- Description
- xxii, 318 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Every campaign season, more trash talk and attack ads dominate the airwaves and more voters subsequently turn off to politics. Why do so many races degenerate into name-calling and negativism? What is the effect on our democracy - our ability to make the right political and policy choices? Poison Politics: Are Negative Campaigns Destroying Democracy? tackles these vital questions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Power of Negative Thinking -- Ch. 2. Mudslinging through the Ages -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Political Mass Media -- Ch. 4. Putting the Spot in Focus -- Ch. 5. Antipolitics -- Ch. 6. Poison Politics and the Press -- Ch. 7. The Video Culture -- Ch. 8. Fear and Loathing in Suburbia -- Ch. 9. The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name -- Ch. 10. Gender, Sexuality, and Religion -- Ch. 11. The Selling of the Candidate -- Ch. 12. The Rise of Consultants -- Ch. 13. The Lost Art of (Small-d) Democratic Rhetoric -- Ch. 14. Fighting Fair -- Ch. 15. Reforming Our Political Debate -- Ch. 16. The Power of Positive Participation -- Epilogue: The 1996 Campaign.
- ISBN
- 0306456281 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^^97030034^
- OCLC
- 37341454
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library