The Triple Agenda of Presidential Debates

The authors find little support for the view that televisedpresidential debates address the public's primary politicalconcerns. Though candidates speak directly to the public, andthe public is represented by journalists who question the candidates,the research suggests that never the "three shall meet." Basedon (I) content analysisof the Brst 1960 and 1976 presidentialdebates and (2) secondary analysis of survey data (Gallup andCPS), candidates, journalists, and public appear to have theirown separate issue agendas. Survey data in this paper were madeavailable by the Roper Center and the Inter-University Consortiumfor Political and Social Research, via the University of PennsylvaniaSocialScienceData Center. Data for 1976 were originally collected by theCenter for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research,the University of Michigan, under a grant from the NationalScience Foundation. Neither the originalcollectors of the datanor the Consortium bear any responsibility for the analysesand interpretations presented here.     

The Impression Management Techniques of the Burlesque Comedian

This discussion is an in-depth study of burlesque comics. The basic argument is that burlesque comics, like other marginal members of society, manipulate their behaviour so as to present a more favourable self-image than the one in play in negative stereotypes. They have a detailed knowledge of the social sexual norms of the more conventional members of society and use this knowledge alternately to pass as respectable citizens and to play the role of comic in the burlesque performance.     

Exploring Perspectives in Narrative Research: An Indonesian Case Study*

Cet article veut examiner le processus par lequel deux chercheures, situées à des endroits très différents, analysent les données d'une étude qu'elles ont menée ensemble. À partir d'un projet de recherche narrative dans un groupe de collaboration, soutenus par un groupe central du programme d'études supérieures en études de la condition féminine à L'Université d'Indonésie (programme Kajian Wanita), les rôles de la chercheure canadienne et de la chercheure indonésienne étaient d'une importance cruciale à la fois dans la conceptualisation et dans L'analyse des données. Les auteures explorent ici quelques‐unes des façons par lesquelles leur position différente influe à la fois sur leur relation en tant que chercheures et sur leur analyse des données. This paper is an attempt to examine the process whereby two researchers, situated very differently, analysed the data arising from a jointly conducted study. The roles of the Canadian and the Indonesian researcher were crucially important in both framing and analysing the data arising from a collaborative group narrative research project, carried out with a core group in the graduate program in Women's Studies at the University of Indonesia (Program Studi Kajian Wanita). In this paper we explore some of the ways in which our different positioning affected both our relationship as researchers and our analyses of the data.