{"id":6460,"date":"2012-10-23T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:02:54","slug":"the-economics-of-hosting-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-hosting-presidential-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Hosting Presidential Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6465\" title=\"Obama And Romney Spar In Final Debate Before Presidential Election\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final 2012 American Presidential debate ended just a few hours ago and Miranda Green took a look at the economics of hosting the debates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most academic institutions are put off by the cost of the debate. It takes at least $1.5 million (and often much more) to pay for the security, equipment, and production.<\/li>\n<li>However smaller institutions believe that it&#8217;s worth their money because it helps to get their name out there. One University saw the number of applicants rise by 20% after it hosted the debate.<\/li>\n<li>Hosting the debate also has the benefit of creating a surge in alumni donations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the things that universities consider before hosting a debate over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/22\/why-most-colleges-don-t-want-to-host-a-presidential-debate.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/22\/why-most-colleges-don-t-want-to-host-a-presidential-debate.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final 2012 American Presidential debate ended just a few hours ago and Miranda Green took a look at the economics of hosting the debates: Most academic institutions are put off by the cost of the debate. It takes at least $1.5 million (and often much more) to pay for the security, equipment, and production. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Economics-of-Hosting-Debate.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}