Ground Wars : : Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns / / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen.

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such ca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 line illus. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. Welcome to the Campaigns
  • Chapter 1. Personalized Political Communication in American Campaigns
  • Chapter 2. The Ground War Enters the Twenty-first Century
  • Chapter 3. Contacting Voters at Home
  • Chapter 4. Organizing Campaign Assemblages
  • Chapter 5. Targeting Voters for Personal Contacts
  • Chapter 6. Always Fighting the Same Ground War?
  • Research Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index