The American Political Marketplace: New Citizens, New Machines, New Strategies
Dahvi Wilson
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The American conception of what it means to be a citizen has changed drastically in the last 40 years, marked by a decrease in civic participation, declining social capital, and an increase in the professionalization of advocacy. American citizens have moved away from being active participants in the political process, and towards a role as passive consumers of political products. At the same time, the business of American politics has changed with shifts in campaign finance laws and candidate-centered electoral campaigns, and savvy political actors are responding to their changing environment with an increasingly sophisticated method of marketing their ideologies.
The American conception of what it means to be a citizen has changed drastically in the last 40 years, marked by a decrease in civic participation, declining social capital, and an increase in the professionalization of advocacy. American citizens have moved away from being active participants in the political process, and towards a role as passive consumers of political products. At the same time, the business of American politics has changed with shifts in campaign finance laws and candidate-centered electoral campaigns, and savvy political actors are responding to their changing environment with an increasingly sophisticated method of marketing their ideologies.
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2005
2005
