Effects of Televised Presidential Debates: Replication of Pre-Covid Studies

• In Event: Media Dynamics and the Shaping of Public Perception

Brief Overview

Using Trump-Harris and the Vance-Walz debates, controlled field experiments replicated pre-Covid studies of impact of televised presidential debates on viewers, finding nuanced influences on viewer perceptions of candidates, but no votes changed.

Author

• John W. Williams, Principia College