Televised Election Debates

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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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.

• election
• multimedia
• television
• TV debate
• voter

• The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, London, UK

  Stephen Coleman

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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