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Winning elections with political marketing / Philip John Davies, Bruce I. Newman, editors.
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1. Political campaigns—United States. 2. Political campaigns—Great Britain. 3. Campaign
management—United States. 4. Campaign management—Great Britain. 5. Advertising, Political—
United States. 6. Advertising, Political—Great Britain. I. Davies, Philip, 1948- II. Newman, Bruce I.
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CONTENTS
Contributors xi
Index 227
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Philip John Davies, PhD, is Director of the David and Mary Eccles
Center for American Studies at the British Library in London, Eng-
land; Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas
at the University of London; and Professor of American Studies at De
Montfort University in Leicester, England. He has been a member of
a number of editorial boards for international journals and was found-
ing general editor of the British Association for American Studies
paperbacks series. Dr. Davies most recent publications include A His-
tory Atlas of North America, New Challenges for the American Presi-
dency, American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush Jr., U.S.
Elections Today, and Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old
Orders.
Bruce I. Newman, PhD, is Professor of Marketing at DePaul Uni-
versity in Chicago, Illinois. He is a former visiting scholar at the Insti-
tute of Government at the University of California, Berkeley, and in
the Department of Political Science at Stanford, in Palo Alto, Califor-
nia. He is the author of several books on political marketing and con-
sumer psychology, including The Marketing of the President. Dr.
Newman serves on numerous editorial boards and is the founding ed-
itor-in-chief of the Journal of Political Marketing (Haworth).
PoliticalPolitical Marketing
Marketing As As Elections
Elections Approach in the U.S. and U.K.
Approach in the United States
and the United Kingdom
Philip John Davies
Bruce I. Newman
The national election cycles of the United States and the United
Kingdom appear on first glance to be fundamentally different. In the
United States there is never a time when the whole of the national
government is up for election at the same time. The authors of the
constitution, strove, in their design, to counterbalance those elements
of the new national political structure that some feared would present
too many opportunities for rapid radical change. One such balance
was to make U.S. Senators subject to rolling replacement, with only
one-third of their number being selected each two years. So the near-
est thing that the United States has to a national general election is
when the office of all of the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third
of the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. President and Vice President, appear
on the ballot simultaneously. These U.S. Election Days are time-
tabled precisely, on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
at four-yearly intervals. Any young politician deciding to set her
long-term ambitions on federal office up to and including the White
House can calculate to the day when the opportunities to challenge
for that position will arise, and can plan short-, medium-, and long-
term political strategies accordingly. The drive to regulate campaign
finance notwithstanding, American candidates and political parties
still raise and spend considerable amounts of money. With all this
foreknowledge, campaigns sometimes seem to go on for ever.
fore submitting updated versions in June 2004. With the help of a dis-
tinguished international panel of advisory editors, a selection of these
papers was made for the present book. The papers were double-blind
reviewed, with comments returned to the authors in later summer
2004. Papers redrafted in response to the commentaries were re-
viewed again in the autumn of 2004, and all the published papers
were accepted in their final forms by December 2004.
The opening chapters of this book address the theoretical under-
pinnings of policy development within the context of political mar-
keting. Robert Worcester and Paul Baines, in “Voter Research and
Market Positioning: Triangulation and Its Implications for Policy De-
velopment,” take up this search by using the background of two dif-
ferently derived conceptions of triangulation developed in the United
Kingdom and the United States. Darren Lilleker and Ralph Negrine,
in “Mapping a Market Orientation: Can We Detect Political Market-
ing Only Through the Lens of Hindsight?”, accept that policy devel-
opment is co-produced through some form of interaction between
politicians and electorate, aimed at the production of a policy product
that reflects the electorate’s needs and wants, and examine ways in
which this process can be identified in real time, rather than, as with
so many academic endeavours, primarily in post-hoc accounts.
Looking at the accuracies and distortions in political marketing,
Robert Busby opens the next section of this volume with an analy-
sis of the virtues commonly connected to leadership candidates in
the United States and the United Kingdom. It becomes clear from
Busby’s account not only that the rise of the common person to na-
tional leadership is not solely an “only in America” phenomenon, but
also that in both nations it might be difficult to detect the accurate
story from the received wisdom. The growth in the United Kingdom
of an interest in the background of political leaders may indicate the
importation from the United States of a more candidate-centered ap-
proach to politics. Peter Ubertaccio identifies some shift in the United
States in a different direction along that spectrum, as possible realign-
ment means that the Republican Party particularly has begun to accu-
mulate some of the characteristics ascribed to what the American
Political Science Association report of 1954 called a “responsible”
political party.
Our next two authors look at political marketing more directly
from the perspective of the broad citizenry than the officeholders and
Political Marketing As Elections Approach in the U.S. and U.K. 5
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SECTION I:
MARKET CONTEXTS
AND DEVELOPING POLICY