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Students of political debating in both Canada and the United States have generally concluded that national debates do little more than reinforce viewers' prior preferences. This article considers the Canadian leadership debates of 1984, and asks two major questions.
- David J. Lanoue
- 1991
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Debates that Mattered: Voters' Reaction to the 1984 Canadian Leadership Debates* DAVID J. LANOUE University of California, Riverside The "Great Debates," some have argued, have not lived up to their great expectations on either side of the Canada-US border. They are now commonly maligned as devoid of substance and rarely illuminating.
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