Title: The Great debates :
Authors: Kraus, Sidney.; Carter, Jimmy,; Ford, Gerald R.,
Date: 1979
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Physical description: xi, 553 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Introduction: Presidential debates: political option or public decree? / Sidney Kraus -- Broadcasting in presidential campaigns, 1960-1976 / Samuel L. Becker and Elmer W. Lower -- Legal and political aspects: was Section 315 circumvented? / Herbert A Terry and Sidney Kraus -- The Public Agenda Foundation : an experiment in issues analysis / Richard L. Cohen -- The Presidential Forums / Charles Benton and Gene Pokorny -- The sponsor: the League of Women Voters Education Fund / Peggy Lampl -- Candidate briefings / Stuart Eizenstat for Carter ; Michael Raoul-Duval for Ford -- Production diary of the debates / Herbert A. Seltz and Richard D. Yoakam -- Making the least of it: television coverage of the audio gap / Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang, wih the assistance of John Stensrud -- The good but not great nondebates: some random personal notes / Richard S. Salant -- Grilling the pols: Q & A at the debates / Louis T. Milic -- Presidential debates: a plan for the future / Jim Karayn -- Uses and effects of the 1976 debates: an overview of empirical studies / David O. Sears and Steven H. Chaffee -- The polls / John P. Robinson -- Informing the electorate: a national study / Arthur H. Miller and Michael Mackuen -- Immediate and mediated responses: first debate / Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang -- Impact on partisan, image, and issue voting / Jack Dennis, Steven H. Chaffee, and Sun Yuel Choe -- Influence on vote decisions / Dennis K. Davis -- Reactions of young and older voters: expanding the context of effects / Jack M. McLeod, Jean A. Durall, Dean A. Ziemke, and Carl R. Bybee -- Adolescents' responses to issues and images / Robert P. Hawkins, Suzanne Pingree, Kim A. Smith, and Warren E. Bechtolt, Jr. -- Information flow and the shaping of meanings / Samuel L. Becker, Robert Pepper, Lawrence A. Wenner, and Jin Keon Kim -- Shifts in candidate images / Herbert W. Simons and Kenneth Leibowitz -- Media influences and their anticipation / Garrett J. O'Keefe and Harold Mendelsohn -- Influence on public agendas / Lee B. Becker, David H. Weaver, Doris A. Graber, and Maxwell E. McCombs -- Home state voter response and secondary media coverage / Charles Atkin, John Hocking, and Steven McDermott -- Impact of ethnic issues on ethnic voters / Leo W. Jeffres and K. Kyoon Hur -- The significance of written texts / Jess Yoder and Howard A. Mims -- First debate, September 23, 1976 -- Second debate, October 6, 1976 -- Vice-Presidential debate, October 15, 1976 -- Third debate, October 22, 1976.
Notes: Includes the text of the 3 televised debates between J. Carter and G. R. Ford, and of the Vice-Presidential debate between R. J. Dole and W. F. Mondale, in the 1976 Presidential campaign.
Subject headings (LCSH): Carter, Jimmy, 1924-; Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.; Presidents--United States--Election--1976.; Television in politics--United States.; United States--Politics and government--1974-1977.