What Are Campaigns For? the Role of Persuasion in Electoral Law and Politics

by James A. Gardner

Election campaigns ought to be serious occasions in the life of a democratic polity. For citizens of a democracy, an election is a time to take stock-to reexamine our beliefs; to review our understanding of our own interests; to ponder the place of those interests in the larger social order;
and to contemplate, and if necessary to revise, our understanding of how our commitments are best translated into governmental policy-or so we profess to believe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195392612
• ISBN13: 9780195392616
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"