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Title: Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (American Politics and Political Economy) by Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler, Dean E. Alger, Timothy E. Cook, Montague Kern, Darrell M. West ISBN: 0-226-42020-5 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Primary Colors
Comment: "Crosstalk" is a useful compilation of academic papers on communications during the presidential campaign of 1992. The foci are on campaign discourse, public, candidate and media agendas, and voting. I characterize this book as "useful," not "compelling," "engaging," or "stimulating" because it is none of those things. It is not a non-fiction version of "Primary Colors," nor is it a campaign journal like "The Making of the President," or any sort of linear story at all. If you are reading this book, there's a good chance it has been assigned in a class, you are doing research or you are a political scientist yourself. If this is the case, "Crosstalk" is certainly the best academic treatment of its subjects that I have come across thus far.
"Crosstalk" is packed with facts, charts, interviews, endnotes and references. It is meticulous in its methodology. Many of the observations about the 1992 election are useful in observing the current (2000) race.
"Crosstalk's" major shortcoming is that it is unnecessarily dry. A campaign is full of anecdotes, has a natural story line, and many dramatic moments. There's no reason, except possible maintaining academic propriety, that the book needs to read like a biological journal. The human element is injected through interviews with voters, but the effect comes across like the voters are specimens. They come off as amusingly ignorant.
But "Crosstalk" is not about narrative. It's about political science. And it serves its purpose well. While "Crosstalk" may not make the short list of political pleasure readings, it should be right up there as a source for academic purposes.
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Title: The Democratic Dilemma : Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? by Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins ISBN: 0521585937 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns by Samuel L. Popkin ISBN: 0226675459 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: What is it about Government that Americans Dislike? by John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse ISBN: 0521796318 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 10 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Macro Polity by Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, James A. Stimson ISBN: 0521564859 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 14 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Elections As Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions by G. Bingham, Jr. Powell ISBN: 0300080166 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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