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More copies of this ISBN:By Invitation Only (00 Edition)by Steven E. Schier
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Publisher Comments:Steven Schier examines the shift in U.S. politics to activation--the political variant of niche marketing. This method encourages only a strategically selected few to get involved, resulting in a decline of majority rule in American politics. Book News Annotation:Examines the shift in the US from mobilization, the partisan method
of stimulating very high voter turnout in elections, to activation,
the political variant of niche marketing. Describes how parties,
interest groups, and candidates employ activation to induce
particular, finely targeted portions of the public to become active
in elections, demonstrations, and lobbying, and argues that this
trend results in a decline in majority rule in American politics. The
author teaches political science at Carleton College.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Mobilization Only examines the shift in the United States from mobilization (the partisan method of stimulating very high voter turnout in elections) to activation — the political variant of "niche marketing". This more contemporary method which parties, interest groups, and candidates employ, induces particular, finely targeted portions of the public to become active in elections, demonstrations, and lobbying. Traditional partisan mobilization was a crude tool, operating through personal and print communication. It involved broad appeals, often carried through personal conversation with local party workers or through America's then highly partisan press. Political mobilization predominated during election campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of peak party power. The shift from mobilization to activation allows organizers to mobilize strategic minorities while cloaking the effort in a misleading guise of popular rule. The vogue of participation is that all should get involved. In fact, as Schier illustrates, the process encourages only a strategically selected few to vote in elections or petition government for their interests. The result is a decline in majority rule in American politics. A must-read for anyone concerned with politics in America.
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