Negative Campaigning: An Analysis of U.S. Senate Elections

by Richard R. Lau and Gerald M. Pomper

Book Overview

Just in time for an assessment of election 2004, two distinguished political scientists bring us a sophisticated analysis of negative campaigns for the Senate from 1992 to 2002. The results of their study are surprising and challenge conventional wisdom: negative campaigning has dominated relatively few elections over the past dozen years, there is little evidence that it has had a deleterious effect on our political system, and it is not a particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742527328
• ISBN13: 9780742527324
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"