Lexington Books
Pages: 144
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-8410-3 • Hardback • September 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-4985-1561-0 • Paperback • April 2015 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-0-7391-8411-0 • eBook • September 2013 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
William L. Benoit is a professor of communication studies at Ohio University.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Theory and Method: Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse
Chapter 3: American Presidential Campaign Debates
Chapter 4: American Non-Presidential and World Political Campaign Debates
Chapter 5: Incumbency in Political Campaign Debates
Chapter 6: Campaign Phase in Political Campaign Debates
Chapter 7: News Coverage of Political Campaign Debates
Chapter 8: Issue Ownership, Functional Federalism, and Retrospective versus Prospective Voting in American Political Campaign Debates
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix I. List of U.S. Presidential Primary, General, and Vice Presidential Campaign Debates
Appendix II. Viewers for American Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates
Appendix III. Forms of Policy and Character in Debates
This book is a must read for political communication scholars. It is rare to be offered a systematic, multi-faceted, and theoretically-driven analysis of a single election component. Benoit's content analysis of United States debates (presidential and non-presidential), as well as political debates conducted across the globe, is unrivaled.
— Lance Holbert, University of South Carolina