In defense of negativity attack ads in presidential campaigns /

Main Author: Geer, John Gray.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10381172
Table of Contents:
  • The need for negativity: an introduction
  • Assessing negativity
  • The information environment and negativity
  • Evaluating character attacks
  • Evaluating the content of negative and positive issue appeals
  • Dragging the truth into the gutter? The news media, negativity
  • And the 1988 campaign
  • Negativity, democracy, and the political system.