Internet Election Campaigns in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kiyohara, Shoko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Maeshima, Kazuhiro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Owen, Diana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Political Campaigning and Communication,
• Subjects: Political communication.; Asia-Politics and government.; Comparative politics.; United States-Politics and government.; Political Communication.; Asian Politics.; Comparative Politics.; US Politics.

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It examines whether or not the "Americanization of elections" i...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - The Internet and the Americanization of Electoral Campaigning in East Asian Democracies; Kazuhiro Maeshima
• Chapter 2 - Characteristics of U.S. Elections in the Digital Media Age; Diana Owen
• Chapter 3- Comparing Institutional Factors that Influence Internet Campaigning in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; Shoko Kiyohara
• Chapter 4 - Media Environments in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; Morihiro Ogasahara
• Chapter 5 - Is the Power of Online Campaigning in Japanese Electoral Politics a Myth? A Causal Inference Analysis of the 2013 Upper House Election; Tetsuro Kobayashi
• Chapter 6 - A New Trend in Internet Election Campaigning: The Use of Smartphone Apps in the 2014 South Korean Local Elections; Hongchun Lee
• Chapter 7 - When Elections Become Social Movements: Emerging 'Citizen-Initiated' Campaigning in Taiwan; Boyu Chen
• Chapter 8 - Conclusion: The Development of Digital Democracy in East Asia; Shoko Kiyohara, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Diana Owen. .