Global Electioneering
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Overview
Global Electioneering explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Gerald Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of politics and asserts that it is instead affected by economics, industry, and the organizational power of new communication technology.
Synopsis
Global Electioneering explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Gerald Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of politics and asserts that it is instead affected by economics, industry, and the organizational power of new communication technology.
Editorials
Canadian Journal Of Communication
Sussman's book is especially valuable because it demonstrates the global spread of the U.S. model of hyperindustrial electioneering, replacing the craft and local specificities of national election practices in Canada, UK, Europe, and Japan. Global Electioneering provides a clearly written and very well-documented analysis in the tradition of some of our best political communication research. The discussion of much-needed reforms that concludes the book will offer students if not a road map out of the abyss, at least suggestions to help them design their own map.Choice
Sussman delivers a stinging indictment of U.S.-style campaigning and electioneering and a warning on the dangers of exporting such practices to the global stage.The Journal Of International Communication
Global Electioneering, a book rich in data and theoretical analysis of political communication methods, encourages us to think seriously on what a democracy worthy of its name requires and signifies, and whether these preconditions are fulfilled in today's political process.— Anastasia Deligiaouri, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece