Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall; Birdsell, David S.

ISBN 10: 019506660X / ISBN 13: 9780195066609

Published by Oxford University Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019506660X
• ISBN 13: 9780195066609
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 12 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Political Science

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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.

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.