Televised Election Debates

International Perspectives
2000. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-73263-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

This book examines the present and future of televised election debates, from the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate of 1960 to the age of digital interactive multimedia. A number of contributors, from various perspectives - debate producers, participants and pundits - and from a variety of countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, UK, Israel - discuss the significance of TV debates in what is the first international study of this important political phenomenon.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Foreword; D.Butler Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite; S.Coleman What Can Voters Learn from Election Debates?; K.H.Jamieson & C.Adasiewicz Leaders Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia; I.Ward & M.Walsh Peres Versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996; S.Blum-Kulka & T.Liebes Third Parties and TV Debates; R.Holme The Great British Exception; A.Mitchell The Worm that Turned: New Zealand's 1996 General Election and the Televised 'Worm' Debates; H.Clark Making the Debates Happen: A Guide for Viewers; D.B.Carlin Mission to Engage; J.Hall Index

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTOPHER ADASIEWICZ Researcher, Princeton Survey Research, Washington, DC
ARNOLD AMBER Executive Producer, News Department, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
DIANA B. CARLIN Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas
HELEN CLARK Leader, New Zealand Labour Party
JULIE HALL TV Producer and trustee of The Scarman Trust
SHOSHANA-BLUM-KULKA Professor of Social Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON Dean of Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
RICHARD HOLME (Lord Holme of Cheltenham) sits in the House of Lords at Westminster and was Liberal Democratic Election Campaign Chairman in the 1997 UK general election
TAMAR LIEBES Professor of Social Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
AUSTIN MITCHELL British Labour MP and frequent broadcaster
MARY WALSH Lecturer, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology
IAN WARD Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Queensland