Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate
- ISBN-10
- 019506660X
- ISBN-13
- 9780195066609
- Series
- Presidential Debates
- Category
- Campaign debates
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-08
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Authors
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, David S. Birdsell
Description
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 somethoughtful suggestions for improving their current effectiveness.
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