Decline of Popular Politics

Auteur: McGerr, Michael E. (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
Why does politics no longer excite many, if not most, Americans? In this book, Michael McGerr attributes the decline in voter participation to the transformation of political style that occurred in the American North after the Civil War, showing how a vital democratic culture yielded to advertised campaigns and an emphasis on personalities rather than issues.

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Why does politics no longer excite many, if not most, Americans? In this book, Michael McGerr attributes the decline in voter participation to the transformation of political style that occurred in the American North after the Civil War, showing how a vital democratic culture yielded to advertised campaigns and an emphasis on personalities rather than issues.
ISBN / EAN 9780195054248
Auteur McGerr, Michael E. (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc