Presidential Campaigns

Sins of Omission
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7619-2336-7
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, Band 572, 161 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Reihe: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series

It is a truism that the issues politicians discuss in campaigns deserve study, but what about the issues they do not discuss? The question of what gets on a presidential campaign's radar screen, what does not, and why is central to understanding how effectively campaigns function as tools of self-government.

This issue of The Annals examines dimensions of these questions through articles originally commissioned for two conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. If these articles together amount to a catalogue of complaints about the quality of America's presidential debate, perhaps that is to be expected. Views on what candidates ought to discuss will always lie in the eye of the beholder. What the contributors to this volume share, however, is the conviction that campaign discourse matters and that defining the campaign agenda is central to democracy.

So long as candidates seek to win 50 percent of the vote plus one, while citizens struggle to find expression of and answers for their concerns, the question "Whose campaign is it anyway?" will be with us.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

Miller, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jobs, Cities, and Suburbs in the Global Economy - Janice Fanning Madden
CONTENTS
Foreward - Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Preface - Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Matthew Miller
What Could Voters Learn From the 2000 Primaries
What Did the Leading Candidates Say, and Did It Matter? - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Michael G. Hagen, Dan Orr, Lesley Sillaman, Suzanne Morse, and Kim Kirn
Knowledge in the 2000 Primary Elections - David Dutwin
Women and Political Knowledge durin the 2000 Primaries - Kate Kenski
Political Discussion in the Primary States - Paul Waldman
Dynamics of the 2000 Republican Primaries - Michael G. Hagen, Richard Johnston, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, David Dutwin, and Kate Kenski
The Unaddressed Issues of the 2000 Primaries
From the Perspective of Scholars
The Hole in the Doughnut - Lawrence W. Sherman
Center Cities and Sprawl
Urban Poverty - Felton Earls
Scientific and Ethical Considerations
The Federal Role in Curbing Urban Sprawl - Bruce Katz