Ground Wars :: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns.

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such ca...

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Main Author: Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen examines how American political operatives use "personalized political communication" to engage with the electorate, and weighs the implic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (250 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400840441
1400840449
0691153051
9780691153056

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