Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Party Networks and Political Innovation
Chapter 2: The Grand Old Party: Innovations From the Edge to
Center
Chapter 3: Republican Party Inertia in a Changed Political
Context
Chapter 4: The Aftermath of McCain's Defeat
Chapter 5: Reelecting the President
Chapter 6: Old Paths and New Beginnings
Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Technology-intensive Campaigning
Methodological Appendix: Studying Technology and Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Daniel Kreiss is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
"Kreiss' contributions to political communication and STS are fresh
and exciting. This book is a true insider's guide, and the final
message about how data can improve the fabric of democracy will
resonate with all readers."
--New Media & Society
"It's said that architecture is politics in stone. Daniel Kreiss
shows that the database architecture of technology-intensive
campaigning is politics in code. This is essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand innovation in the infrastructure of
America's political parties."
--David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth
in Economic Life
"In this important book Daniel Kreiss argues that we have entered a
'technology-intensive' era of presidential campaigning-one
requiring fluid networks of experts and novices, transforming
national parties into 'databases,' and evoking the
socially-embedded politics of a century ago. Skillfully combining
data and interpretation, Kreiss traces these changes to the way two
decades of electoral outcomes were differentially understood by the
Democratic and
Republican parties."
--Michael X. Delli Carpini, Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania
"Prototype Politics offers a substantive behind-the-scenes look at
campaigns' use of technology and how it is dramatically changing
what it means to run for office in the 21st century. Kreiss has
talked to a deep bench of practitioners in the campaign digital,
data and analytics space that allows for insights into the process
that go far beyond what you would normally get from daily coverage
of the political horserace."
-- Alex Lundry, co-founder of Deep Root Analytics and Director of
Data Science for Romney 2012
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