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Political Marketing in Canada

Political Marketing in Canada

Edited by Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson and Jennifer Lees-Marshment

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics

Imprint: UBC Press

18 tables, 14 figures

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9780774822305
Published: January 2012

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Political Marketing in Canada introduces politicians, political parties, policy makers, and advisers and scholars in political science, marketing, and communications to an innovative new perspective on electioneering and politics.

Part 1: The Marketplace

1 Introducing Political Marketing / Thierry Giasson, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, and Alex Marland

2 The Canadian Political Market and the Rules of the Game / Yannick Dufresne and Alex Marland

3 The Diversity of the Canadian Political Marketplace / Elisabeth Gidengil

Part 2: Political Parties and Institutions

4 Amateurs versus Professionals: The 1993 and 2006 Canadian Federal Elections / Alex Marland

5 Under New Management: Market Intelligence and the Conservative Party’s Resurrection / André Turcotte

6 The Impact of Market Research on Political Decisions and Leadership: Practitioners’ Perspectives / Jennifer Lees-Marshment

7 “Buyer” Beware: Pushing the Boundaries of Marketing Communications in Government / Kirsten Kozolanka

8 Market Orientation in a Minority Government: The Challenges of Product Delivery / Anna Esselment

9 Does Public Opinion Research Matter? The Marketing of Health Policy / Lisa Birch

10 Selling a Cause: Political Marketing and Interest Groups / Émilie Foster and Patrick Lemieux

Part 3: The Media and Citizens

11 As (Not) Seen on TV: News Coverage of Political Marketing in Canadian Federal Elections / Thierry Giasson

12 Are We Friends Yet? Online Relationship Marketing by Political Parties / Tamara A. Small

13 Double-Double: Branding, Tim Hortons, and the Public Sphere / Patricia Cormack

14 Marketing and Efficacy: Does Political Marketing Empower Canadians? / Royce Koop

Part 4: Conclusion

15 Challenges for Democracy / Thierry Giasson, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, and Alex Marland

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Alex Marland is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thierry Giasson is an associate professor in the Communication and Information Department at Université Laval. Jennifer Lees-Marshment is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland.

Contributors: Lisa Birch, Patricia Cormack, Yannick Dufresne, Anna Esselment, Émilie Foster, Thierry Giasson, Elisabeth Gidengil, Royce Koop, Kirsten Kozolanka, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Patrick Lemieux, Alex Marland, Tamara A. Small, and André Turcotte.

The book is a collection of sophisticated, learned research into the nuts and bolts of modern campaigning, aspects too often ignored in Canadian political science, which tends to view politics through the loftier prisms of history, ideology or procedure. The editors and contributors to this volume force us to confront the reality that modern Canadian politics is as much about commercial marketing principles as it is about any of the other more intellectual and less pragmatic views of what drives our political world. ~Susan Delacourt, The Literary Review of Canada, July 2012

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