1st Edition

Political Marketing and the Election of 2020

Edited By Jody C Baumgartner, Bruce I. Newman Copyright 2023
102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the 2020 campaign and election in the United States of America from the perspective of political marketing, always intrinsic to democratic elections. Whether focused on the development of campaign strategy, its implementation via various communication media, or how well that communication resonates and mobilizes the electorate, marketing is central to political campaigning.... Read more

Introduction: Political Marketing and the Election of 2020

Jody C Baumgartner

1. On Political Brands: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Sigge Winther Nielsen

2. A Long Story Short: An Analysis of Instagram Stories during the 2020 Campaigns

Terri L. Towner and Caroline Muñoz

3. Marketing Female Candidates as “Women”: Gender and Partisanship’s Influence on Issue Discussion on Twitter in 2020

Heather K. Evans

4. Tipping the Twitter vs. News Media Scale? Conducting a Third Assessment of Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects during the Presidential Nomination Season

Bethany Anne Conway, Eric Tsetsi, Kate Kenski and Yotam Shmargad

5. An Application of Psychological Reactance Theory to College Student Voter Registration and Mobilization

Tobias Reynolds-Tylus and Dan Schill

6. Candidate Evaluations and Social Media Following during the 2020 Presidential Campaign

Kate Kenski, Dam Hee Kim and S. Mo Jones-Jang

Afterword: Political Marketing, the 2022 Midterms and Future Campaigns

Bruce I. Newman and Jody C Baumgartner

Biography

Jody C Baumgartner, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, teaches political science at East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Miami University, Oxford, USA, in 1998, specializing in the study of campaigns and elections. He has been at ECU since 2003. Baumgartner has authored or edited 11 books, numerous journal articles, and book chapters, individually or in collaboration with others, on political humor, the vice presidency, and other subjects.

Bruce I. Newman is a Professor of Marketing and Wicklander Fellow in Business Ethics in the Department of Marketing at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Dr. Newman is the author/editor of several books and articles on political marketing, most recently Brand (2018 with Todd P. Newman), The Marketing Revolution in Politics (2016), and The Marketing of the President (1994). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Marketing and former Advisor to the Clinton White House in 1995-96.