LEADER 08282cam 22006138i 4500001 ssj0001749390 003 WaSeSS 005 20230112080332.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 160412s2016 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 010 2016009381 020 9780190272692 (hardback) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0001749390 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 EREENEHH 050 00 JK2281 |b.J624 2016 082 00 324.0973 |223 084 POL007000POL008000POL043000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Johnson, Dennis W. |=^A491119 245 10 Democracy for hire |h[electronic resource] : |ba history of American political consulting / |cDennis W. Johnson. 260 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c2016. 300 xiii, 591 pages ; |c25 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-576) and index. 505 8 Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: EARLY BUSINESS OF POLITICAL CONSULTING, 1930s-1960s -- Ch. 1 In the Beginning, Whitaker & Baxter -- Ch. 2 Measuring Public Opinion, Private and Public Pollsters -- Ch. 3 Radio, Television and Campaigning, 1920s-1960 -- Ch. 4 The Pioneers -- Ch. 5 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1964 and 1968, and Consulting Abroad -- PART 2: THE EXPANSION AND GROWTH OF CONSULTING, 1970s-1980s -- Ch. 6 Money, Campaigns and the Next Generation of Consultants -- Ch. 7 Evolution of Polling -- Ch. 8 The Media Revolution -- Ch. 9 Voter Contact: Targeting, Direct Mail, and Phone Banks -- Ch. 10 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1972, 1976, and 1980 -- Ch. 11 Consulting, Ballot Issues and Local Government -- Ch. 12 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1984 and 1988 -- PART 3: TRANSFORMATION OF CONSULTING AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD, 1990 - PRESENT -- Ch. 13 New Generation of Consultants -- Ch. 14 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1992 and 1996 -- Ch. 15 Technological Advances -- Ch. 16 Issue Campaigns and Government Affairs; Consultants Going Corporate -- Ch. 17 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 2000 and 2004 -- Ch. 18 Consulting Internationally -- Ch. 19 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 2008 and 2012 -- Ch. 20 Outside Groups, Plutocrats and Dark Money; Consultants and the 2016 Presidential Campaign -- Ch. 21 Political Consulting Today -- Appendix A: Key Consultants and Senior Advisers for Presidential Candidates, 1952-2016 -- Appendix B: American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame Inductees -- Notes -- Index. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 "Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship, helped derail Bill Clinton's health care initiative, and carried out the swiftboating of John Kerry. As Dennis Johnson argues in this history of political consulting in the United States, they are essential to modern campaigning, often making positive contributions to democratic discourse, and yet they have also polarized the electorate with their biting messages. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, political campaigns were run by local political parties, volunteers, and friends of candidates; but as party loyalties among voters began to weaken, and political parties declined as sources of manpower and strategy, professional consultants swept in to carry the day. Political consulting emerged as a profession in the 1930s with writers Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker, the husband and wife team who built their business, in part, with a successful campaign to destroy Upton Sinclair's 1934 bid for governor of California. With roots in advertising and public relations, political consulting has since developed into a highly professionalized business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, some of the top campaign consulting outfits have more recently come full circle and merged to create new public relations firms, serving not just candidates but also shaping public advocacy campaigns for businesses and nonprofits. Johnson, an academic who has also worked on campaigns alongside the likes of James Carville and pollster Peter D. Hart, suffuses his history with the stories of the colorful characters who have come to define the profession of consulting, from its beginning to its present. This will be the most complete and sweeping story of the profession to date. Moving beyond the making of a political business, this book also describes the very contours of modern American politics."-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, political campaigns were run by local political parties, volunteers, and friends of candidates; but as party loyalties among voters began to weaken, and political parties declined as sources of manpower and strategy, professional consultants swept in to carry the day. Political consulting emerged as a profession in the 1930s with writers Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker, the husband and wife team who built their business, in part, with a successful campaign to destroy Upton Sinclair's 1934 bid for governor of California. With roots in advertising and public relations, political consulting has since developed into a highly professionalized business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, some of the top campaign consulting outfits have more recently come full circle and merged to create new public relations firms, serving not just candidates but also shaping public advocacy campaigns for businesses and nonprofits. Johnson, an academic who has also worked on campaigns alongside the likes of James Carville and pollster Peter D. Hart, suffuses his history with the stories of the colorful characters who have come to define the profession of consulting, from its beginning to its present. This will be the most complete and sweeping story of the profession to date. As such it tells not just the making of a political business but the very contours of modern American politics."-- |cProvided by publisher. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 Political consultants |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A132361 650 0 Political consultants |zUnited States |xHistory |y21st century. |=^A132361 650 0 Public relations and politics |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A37505 650 0 Public relations and politics |zUnited States |xHistory |y21sth century. |=^A37505 650 0 Political campaigns |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A1013382 650 0 Political campaigns |zUnited States |xHistory |y21st century. |=^A1013386 650 0 Political culture |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A218165 650 0 Political culture |zUnited States |xHistory |y21st century. |=^A1013380 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy. |2bisacsh 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections. |2bisacsh 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. |2bisacsh 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 710 2 Oxford University Press. |=^A636469 856 40 |zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbook%2F27768 856 40 |zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbook%2F27768 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5504565