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Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire (9-12-09)

Campaign Talk: Why Elections are Good for Us by Roderick Hart was named the best political communication book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association.

Hart conducts a long-term (1948-1996) analysis of thousands of texts from several genres of campaign discourse -- including campaign speeches, print and television news coverage, debates, advertisements and letters to the editor -- with a computerized content analysis program and sheds light on the important role campaigns play in sustaining democracy by creating a national dialogue.

Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM | Comments (0) | Return

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