Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate - Softcover

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall; Birdsell, David S.

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9780195066609: Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate
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ISBN 10: 019506660X ISBN 13: 9780195066609
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

How important are presidential debates today? To answer this question, the authors place modern debates in their cultural and historical context, tracing their origins and development in the American political tradition, from the eighteenth century to the present, and concluding with some thoughtful suggestions for improving their current effectiveness.

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About the Author

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written two other books on political discourse--Packaging the Presidency and Eloquence in an Electronic Age--and has served on the 20th-Century Fund's Taskforce on Presidential Debates. David S. Birdsell is Assistant Professor at Baruch College and consultant to the Congressional Management Foundation.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019506660X
ISBN 13 
9780195066609
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
276
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