Televised Election Debates
eBook - PDF

Televised Election Debates

International Perspectives

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Televised Election Debates

International Perspectives

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Notes on the Contributors
  6. 1 Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite
  7. 2 What Can Voters Learn from Election Debates?
  8. 3 Leaders Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia
  9. 4 Peres versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996
  10. 5 Third Parties and Television Debates
  11. 6 The Great British Exception
  12. 7 The Worm that Turned: New Zealand's 1996 General Election and the Televised 'Worm' Debates
  13. 8 Making the Debates Happen: a Television Producer's Perspective
  14. 9 Watching the Debates: a Guide for Viewers
  15. 10 Mission to Engage
  16. Index