What are campaigns for? [electronic resource] : the role of persuasion in electoral law and politics / James A. Gardner. Gardner, James A., 1959- Political campaigns United States. Election law United States. JK2281 .G37 2009 324.70973 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. The author 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 needs of democratic theory. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. c2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (x, 219 p.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195392616.001.0001 eng United States. United States.