This volume provides a unique synthesis of the relevant literature from academic studies in the fields of political science, marketing, advertising, speech communication, telecommunication, and public relations combined with the practical wisdom of professional consultants. Offering the reader both the theory and practical applications associated with negative political advertising, this is the first book devoted exclusively to the various forms of negative campaigning in the United States. After developing a typology of negative political spots for greater clarity in explaining and evaluating them, the book addresses effectiveness questions such as: What works? When? Why? and How?
Also, see Michael Pfau and Allan Louden, “Effectiveness of Ad-Watch Formats in Deflecting Political Attack Ads,” Communication Research 21 (1994): 325–41. This article demonstrates that the full-screen format has significant boomerang ...
These analyses bring novel empirical techniques to the study of basic normative questions of democratic theory and practice.
This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries from all parts of the world currently available.
The chapters in this volume tackle three of the most interesting and most complicated issues in political advertising today: the characterization of ads and the need to measure their impact; the agenda-setting and priming effects of ads; ...
This interesting and timely volume explores the effectiveness of negative campaign ads, whether or not negative campaigning has value, the effectiveness of fact-checking, and what fuels negative campaigning.
Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns John G. Geer. Karabell, Zachary. 2000. The Last Campaign. New York: Vintage. Keeter, Scott and Michael Delli Carpini. 1996. WhatAmericans Know About Politics and Why It Matters.
How can we reconcile the findings of a plethora of studies with the methods of politicians? This book cuts through to the central issue: how negative advertising influences voters' attitudes and actions.
elderly woman: [Here in Missouri] “Roy Blunt's been gone some time now. Probably doesn't know how tough folks here in Missouri have it.” young woman: [Back in Washington] “Roy is the life of the party in DC His wife, great, ...
Newhagon, John E. and Byron Reeves. 1991. “Emotion and Memory Responses for Negative Political Advertising: A Study of Television ... Parry, Robert. 2000. “He's No Pinocchio: How the Press Has Exaggerated Al Gore's Exaggerations.