Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates

ISBN-13: 9781032172620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 332 str.

Julio Juárez-Gámiz; Christina Holtz-Bacha; Alan Schroeder

Opis

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading scholars and practitioners introduce a core theoretical and conceptual framework to understand this phenomenon and point to promising directions for new research on the evolution of electoral debates.

Spis treści

Introduction: Image, Deliberation and Symbolic Power: Why do Electoral Debates Matter?  1. Introduction: Televised Election Debates as Spectacle and Reflection  Part 1: Electoral Debates in the Americas  Introduction to Electoral Debates in the Americas  2. A New Experiment for an Old Media Political Event: Leaders’ Debates in Canada  3. From JFK to Trump: The Evolution of U.S. Presidential Debates  4. Did Video Kill the Rally Star? The Contribution of Presidential Debates to Democratic Change in Mexico  5. Electoral Debates Organized by the Electoral Management Body: Costa Rica 2018  6. Presidential Debates in Colombia. From Rarity to Routine  7. Electoral Debates in Peru 2001 – 2016  8. Chile: Presidential Debates, From Dictatorship To Democracy  9. Presidential Debates in Argentina  10. Televised Presidential Debates in Brazil  Part 2: Europe  Introduction to Europe  11. Planets Seldom Align – A Hit And The Misses Of United Kingdom TV Election Debates  12. Austria: On the Road to Peak TV Debate?  13. Swedish Election Debates: A Long Tradition Adapting to NTw times  14. From the Heavyweights' Debate to the Duel: the Development of TV Debates in Germany  15. Road to the Stadium: Televised Election Debates and "Non-Debates" in Ukraine. Between Spectacle and Democratic Instrument  16. Televised Debates in Croatia: Lost in Regulation  17. Televised Election Debates in The Netherlands: Indirect Effects on Party pPreferences through Media Coverage  18. Electoral Debates in Spain: From TV to Social Networks  19. French Television Debates: Just Audience or True Influence?  Part 3: Select Cases of Electoral Debates across Different Regions  Introduction to Select Cases of Electoral Debates across Different Regions  20. Presidential Debates in Iran  21. Transformation of the Electoral Debate in Japan: Its Content and Context  22. Televised Election Debates in Multi-party Taiwan  23. Electoral Debates in South Korea: From TV debates to YouTube Debates  24. The 2016 Pilipinas Debates  25. New Zealand Election Debates – Combat and Commercialism  26. Leaders Debates in Australian Elections  27. Political Showmanship: A Critical Analysis of Electoral Debates in Kenya  28. Do Debates Matter? The Past, Present and Future of Nigerian Electoral Debates

 

O autorze

Julio Juárez-Gámiz is an associate researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has lectured on topics ranging from political communication, electoral law, journalism, discourse analysis, media and mass communication theories at different Mexican and English Universities. Julio has coordinated different national and multicultural studies on campaigns and elections, media coverage and political communications funded by the National Electoral Institute, IBOPE/AGB (now Nielsen-Ibope), the United Nations Development Program and the Mexican Secretary of State. He served as advisor to the President of the National Electoral Institute from 2015 to 2018.

Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communications at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Past Chair of the International Communication's Associations (ICA) Political Communication Division. Professor Holtz-Bacha has held positions at the University of Mainz, University of Munich, the University of Bochum, the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center/John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999. Her research and instruction focus on political communication and strategic communication as well as German and European media policy.

Alan Schroeder is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University and has worked as a journalist, television producer, and diplomat. Schroeder has written about a variety of media-related topics for such outlets as Politico, the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His work in media and politics extends internationally. He has lectured about the global phenomenon of televised debates in Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Colombia. He has also trained television reporters and producers in the South Pacific and addressed journalists from China, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and various countries in Latin America.