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Campaigns on the Cutting Edge
Fourth Edition
Edited by:
- Richard J. Semiatin - American University, USA
April 2020 | 296 pages | CQ Press
Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online, raise money through web fundraising, and mobilize supporters via smartphones, these increasingly mobile and integrated campaigns face the growing influence of outside interests.
The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women's activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use.
The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women's activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use.
PREFACE
ABOUT THE EDITOR
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
PART I - The New Political Campaign
Richard J. Semiatin
1. Introduction - Campaigns on the Cutting Edge
Robert G. Boatright
2. Fundraising: Toward Donor-Centered Politics?
Thomas A. (Tad) Devine
3. Paid Media in Campaigns: Now and in the Future
Michael Turk
4. Social and New Media Campaigns: Advantage or Source of Disinformation?
Candice J. Nelson
5. Survey Research and Campaigns: Challenges and Opportunities
Richard J. Semiatin
6. Voter Mobilization: An Unexpected Future
PART II - The Evolving Campaign: Adaptation by Political Institutions and Groups
Tari Renner
7. Political Parties: In the Age of Populism and Reform
Nina Therese Kasniunas, Mark J. Rozell, and Charles N. W. Keckler
8. Interest Groups, Super PACs and Independent Expenditures: Driven by Ideology
Richard J. Semiatin and Jeremy D. Mayer
9. Campaign Press Coverage: Fake News Versus Traditional News
Peter L. Francia, Wesley Joe, and Clyde Wilcox
10. Campaign Finance: The Rise of Dark Money in the Roberts Court Era
Jeffrey Crouch
11. Voter Identification Laws and Ballot Access Measures
Susan A. MacManus and Amy N. Benner
12. Women and Candidates: Generational Change, Growing Activism
Atiya Kai Stokes Brown
13. Minority Candidates and the New Landscape of Campaigns in the Twenty-First Century
Dick Simpson
14. Political Campaigns and Democracy
INDEX