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Broadcasters can struggle to report impartially when they have to single out one party for making dubious claims.
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Sunak and Starmer clashed over the cost of living, immigration and the NHS. The Conversation’s expert analysis puts their claims into context.
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Audience research can tell us what voters really want to see in debates.
When a debate becomes just a fight.
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Functional political debates, like healthy democracies, require participants who respect the process and follow mutually agreed-upon rules.
Voters could know more about how each of these men think.
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Three new approaches in the field of competitive academic debate offer ideas that could help presidential debates serve both their public purposes.
Was this event on September 12, 2019, really a debate?
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Debates may help voters identify which candidate shares their views but they do not help them think critically about those views. That’s because presidential debates don’t live up to their name.
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The creation of a new debate commission in Canada should ensure televised showdowns between party leaders amid federal election campaigns are transparent and a boon to democracy.