Televised Election Debates

CHRISTOPHER ADASIEWICZ Researcher, Princeton Survey Research, Washington, DC ARNOLD AMBER Executive Producer, News Department, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation DIANA B. CARLIN Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas HELEN CLARK Leader, New Zealand Labour Party JULIE HALL TV Producer and trustee of The Scarman Trust SHOSHANA-BLUM-KULKA Professor of Social Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON Dean of Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania RICHARD HOLME (Lord Holme of Cheltenham) sits in the House of Lords at Westminster and was Liberal Democratic Election Campaign Chairman in the 1997 UK general election TAMAR LIEBES Professor of Social Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem AUSTIN MITCHELL British Labour MP and frequent broadcaster MARY WALSH Lecturer, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology IAN WARD Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Queensland

Preface Foreword; D.Butler Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite; S.Coleman What Can Voters Learn from Election Debates?; K.H.Jamieson & C.Adasiewicz Leaders Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia; I.Ward & M.Walsh Peres Versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996; S.Blum-Kulka & T.Liebes Third Parties and TV Debates; R.Holme The Great British Exception; A.Mitchell The Worm that Turned: New Zealand's 1996 General Election and the Televised 'Worm' Debates; H.Clark Making the Debates Happen: A Guide for Viewers; D.B.Carlin Mission to Engage; J.Hall Index