Going Negative
By (Author) Shanto Iyengar
By (author) Stephen Ansolabehere
Simon & Schuster
The Free Press
18th September 1997
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political campaigning and advertising
Elections and referenda / suffrage
324.730973
Paperback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 18mm
365g
Political advertising has been called the worst cancer in American society. Ads cost millions, and yet the entire campaign season is now filled with nasty and personal attacks. In this landmark six-year study, two of the nation's leading political scientists show exactly how cancerous the ad spot has become. 16 illustrations.
Stephen Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard University.