The Audience Decides
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The Audience Decides

Applause-Cheering, Laughter, and Booing during Debates in the Trump Era

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The Audience Decides

Applause-Cheering, Laughter, and Booing during Debates in the Trump Era

About this book

The Audience Decides argues that the political parties, aided and abetted by mass media, have abdicated one of their most important responsibilities: that of providing and vetting the best leadership options available. The search for followers, ratings, and attention has led to the structure of presidential debates, especially during the primary season, being driven by goals of entertaining the public at the expense of enlightening the citizenry. To understand the role of the audience as active participant in political debates, and how their function has been subverted, this book focuses on behavior by the candidates and in-person audiences during the 2016 and 2020 general election debates. It does so by using observational methods to consider nonverbal behaviors by candidates to establish on-stage dominance and the observable audience reactions by the in-person audience and their effect on those following the debates. It is anticipated that The Audience Decides will allow for evaluation and reconsideration of how debates, or whatever replaces them, might not only entertain, but also enlighten the most important part of representative democracy – the voting public. Ultimately, it is hoped that debates will help the audience decide who their leader will be based upon substance, not style.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: A Prologue to Impolite Politics: Are Debates Obsolete?
  8. Chapter 2: Presidential Primary Debates from Beginning to End
  9. Chapter 3: Evolutionary Bases for Observable Audience Response
  10. Chapter 4: Playing the “Trump Card” during the 2016 Primary Debates
  11. Chapter 5: 2020 Vision
  12. Chapter 6: Defining Moments during the Initial 2016 and 2020 Primary Debates
  13. Chapter 7: Changing Online Candidate Visibility Due to the Initial 2016 and 2020 Primary Debates
  14. Chapter 8: Debates Are Broken: Can We Fix Them (and Save Representative Democracy)?
  15. Bibliography
  16. About the Author

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