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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821961803321

Autore

Schroeder Alan <1954->

Titolo

Presidential debates : risky business on the campaign trail / / Alan Schroeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-54150-3

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Classificazione

MG 70470

Disciplina

324.7/30973

Soggetti

Campaign debates - United States

Television in politics - United States

Presidents - United States - Election

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The First Presidential Debate -- Part I: Anticipation -- 1. The Predebate Debate -- 2. Predebate Strategy -- 3. Candidate Preparation -- 4. Predebate News Coverage -- Part II: Execution -- 5. The Debaters -- 6. The Questioners -- 7. The Productions -- Part III: Reaction -- 8. Social Media and Real- Time Reactions -- 9. Postdebate News Coverage -- 10. Debates and Voters -- Conclusion: The Globalization of an American Tradition -- Schedule of Televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates, 1960-2012 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Alan Schroeder's big-picture history recounts the phenomenon of American televised presidential debates and its evolution over the past half century. From pundits to political operatives, from debate moderators to the viewing public, Presidential Debates reveals how the various stakeholders make and experience this powerful event. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the presidential debates of 2008 and 2012 and the crucial role that social media and contemporary news outlets had in shaping their design and reception. He also expands his coverage of previous campaigns, including the landmark meetings in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Schroeder details an insider's view of the key phases of the debate: anticipation, in which



the campaigns negotiate rules, formulate strategy, and steer press coverage; execution, in which the candidates, moderators, panelists, and television professionals create and project the event; and reaction, in which the commentators, spin doctors, and viewers evaluate the performance and move story lines in new directions. New chapters focus on real-time debate responses and the extent to which postdebate news coverage influences voters' decision making and candidates' behavior.