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Televised Election Debates

International Perspectives

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  • © 2000

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  1. Stephen Coleman

    1. The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, London, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite

    • Stephen Coleman
    Pages 1-24

  3. What Can Voters Learn from Election Debates?

    • Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Christopher Adasiewicz
    Pages 25-42

  4. Leaders’ Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia

    • Ian Ward, Mary Walsh
    Pages 43-65

  5. Peres versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996

    • Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Tamar Liebes
    Pages 66-91

  6. Third Parties and Television Debates

    • Richard Holme
    Pages 92-103

  7. The Great British Exception

    • Austin Mitchell
    Pages 104-121

  8. The Worm that Turned: New Zealand’s 1996 General Election and the Televised ‘Worm’ Debates

    • Helen Clark
    Pages 122-129

  9. Making the Debates Happen: a Television Producer’s Perspective

    • Arnold Amber
    Pages 130-156

  10. Watching the Debates: a Guide for Viewers

    • Diana B. Carlin
    Pages 157-177

  11. Mission to Engage

    • Julie Hall
    Pages 178-202

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-211
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, London, UK

    Stephen Coleman

About the editor

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

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