Poison Politics: Are Negative Campaigns Destroying Democracy?

By Victor Kamber

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738208728
• ISBN13: 9780738208725
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher