Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate - Couverture souple

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

 
9780195066609: Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

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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À propos de l?auteur

About the Authors:

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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9780195055399: Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  019505539X ISBN 13 :  9780195055399
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1988
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