Do Political Campaigns Matter?: Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums

by Farrell,David M.

• ISBN13: 9780415255936
• ISBN10: 0415255937
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In recent decades, political actors of all sort--parties and candidates, governments and other political institutions, interest groups and social movements--have increasingly come to view political campaigning as an essential supplement to their engagement in the process of policy-making. By investing ever more efforts and resources into political campaigns, they seek to mobilize support among the mass public, to persuade citizens of their causses, and to inform the citizenry about public policies and political procedures. This book, in brining together some of the leading international schoalrs on electoral behavior and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of hte state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studeis on campaign effects in North American, Europe and Australia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political campaigns and their consequences.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xi
Notes on the contributors	xiii
Series editor's preface	xvi
Preface and acknowledgements	xix
Studying political campaigns and their effects	1	(21)
Rudiger Schmitt-Beck
David M. Farrell
Calculating or capricious? The new politics of late deciding voters	22	(19)
Ian McAllister
When do election campaigns matter, and to whom? Results from the 1999 Swiss election panel study	41	(17)
Romain Lachat
Pascal Sciarini
Campaign effects and media monopoly: the 1994 and 1998 parliamentary elections in Hungary	58	(18)
Marina Popescu
Gabor Toka
Priming and campaign context: evidence from recent Canadian elections	76	(16)
Elisabeth Gidengil
Andre Blais
Neil Nevitte
Richard Nadeau
Candidate-centred campaigns and their effects in an open list system: the case of Finland	92	(16)
Ilkka Ruostetsaari
Mikko Mattila
Post-Fordism in the constituencies? The continuing development of constituency campaigning in Britain	108	(19)
David Denver
Gordon Hands
Do campaign communications matter for civic engagement? American elections from Eisenhower to George W. Bush	127	(18)
Pippa Norris
Referendums and elections: how do campaigns differ?	145	(18)
Lawrence LeDuc
Public opinion formation in Swiss federal referendums	163	(20)
Michael Butzer
Lionel Marquis
Do political campaigns matter? Yes, but it depends	183	(11)
Rudiger Schmitt-Beck
David M. Farrell
Bibliography	194	(17)
Index	211