9780804757249

The constitution of electoral speech law; the Supreme Court and freedom of expression in campaigns and elections.

Pinaire, Brian K.

Stanford U. Press

2008

349 pages

$60.00

Hardcover

KF4770

Many

common people judge campaign speeches within the genres of either lies or jokes, and legal scholars have analyzed it within the framework of either free speech or the electoral processes. No one has seriously studied it as a particular intersection between its two doctrinal lines, says Pinaire (political science, LeHigh U.), and he takes up the challenge. In a descriptive rather than normative treatment, he examines what the US Supreme Court has said about electoral speech, and how those rulings have been interpreted and used in the heat of campaign.

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