Routledge international handbook on electoral debates / Julio Juárez-Gámiz, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Alan Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Juárez Gámiz, Julio, editor.

Holtz-Bacha, Christina, editor.

Schroeder, Alan, 1954- editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campaign debates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading scholars and practitioners from around the world 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 and the practical considerations that different country-level experiences can offer. Three indicators to help analyze electoral debates inform this Handbook: the level of experience of each country in the realization of electoral debates; geopolitical characteristics linked to political influence; and democratic stability and electoral competitiveness. Chapters with examples from the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia and Oceania add richness to the volume. Each chapter: Traces local historical, constitutive relationships between traditional forms of electoral debates and contexts of their emergence; Compares and critiques different perspectives regarding the function of debates on democracy; Probes, discusses and evaluates recent and emergent theoretical resources related to campaign debates in light of a particular local experience; Explores and assesses new or neglected local approaches to electoral debates in a changing media landscape where television is no longer the dominant form of political communication; Provides a prospective analysis regarding the future challengers for electoral debates. The Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates will set the agenda for scholarship on the political communication for years to come"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: Image, Deliberation, and Symbolic Power- Why Do Electoral Debates Matter?

1 Introduction: Televised Election Debates as Spectacle and Reflection

Part I Electoral Debates in the Americas

Introduction

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 Organised 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 II Europe

11 Planets Seldom Align: A Hit and the Misses of United Kingdom Television Election Debates

12 Austria: On the Road to Peak TV Debate?

13 Swedish Election Debates: A Long Tradition Adapting to New Times

14 From the Heavyweights' Debate to the Duel: The Development of Television 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 Preferences through Media Coverage

18 Electoral Debates in Spain: From Television to Social Networks

19 French Television Debates: Just Audience or True Influence?

Part III 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 Multiparty Taiwan

23 Electoral Debates in South Korea: From Television 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

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-06391-7

0-429-33182-7

1-000-06359-3

9780429331824

OCLC:

1143825735