Election campaigns ought to be serious occasions in the life of a
democratic polity. For citizens of a democracy, an election is a
time to take stock-to reexamine our beliefs; to review our
understanding of our own interests; to ponder the place of those
interests in the larger social order; and to contemplate, and if
necessary to revise, our understanding of how our commitments are
best translated into governmental policy-or so we profess to
believe.
Americans, however, are haunted by the fear that our election
campaigns fall far short of the ideal to which we aspire. The
typical modern American election campaign seems crass, shallow, and
unengaging. The arena of our democratic politics seems to lie in an
uncomfortable chasm between our political ideals and everyday
reality.
What Are Campaigns For? is a multidisciplinary work of legal
scholarship that examines the role of legal institutions in
constituting the disjunction between political ideal and reality.
The book explores the contemporary American ideal of democratic
citizenship in election campaigns by tracing it to its historical
sources, documenting its thorough infiltration of legal norms,
evaluating its feasibility in light of the findings of empirical
social science, and testing it against the requirements of
democratic theory.
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