Moss, GS orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-7748 and Coleman, S orcid.org/0000-0001-9571-4759 (2016) Rethinking Election Debates: What Citizens Are Entitled to Expect. International Journal of Press/Politics, 21 (1). pp. 3-24. ISSN 1940-1612
Abstract
This article considers televised election debates from the perspective of Amartya Sen and Martha C. Nussbaum’s notion of capabilities and entitlements. In contrast to the kind of predetermined “information needs” upon which most debate effects’ studies have been based, the authors set out to ask citizens to explain what kind of democratic capabilities they hoped to derive from watching televised election debates. Through group deliberation within twelve focus groups, participants articulated five broad capabilities that they felt entitled to realize as viewers of televised election debates. Comprising the first stage of a larger project, which is developing an open-source, web-based platform that incorporates a suite of visualization tools that will help citizens make sense of televised political debates, the research reported here attempts to outline what such debates would be like if they were designed from the perspective of citizens rather than political elites.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2015. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in The International Journal of Press/Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | televised debates, citizenship, democracy, capabilities, entitlements, information needs |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EP/L003112/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2015 09:05 |
Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2020 11:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940161215609732 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1940161215609732 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90843 |