Presidential Debates - The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David S. Birdsell, Birdsell David S., Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Jamieson Kathleen Hall
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.08.1990
• EAN: 9780195066609
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506660-9
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 333 g
• Illustrazioni: 20 photos & line drawings
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage