Town hall meetings and the death of deliberation /

Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall meeting from its original context as a form of democratic community governance in New England into a format for presidential debates and a staple of corporate governance. In its contemporary iteration, the town hall meeting models the a...

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Main Author:	Field, Jonathan Beecher (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Series:	Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Subjects:	Public meetings > United States > History. Local government > United States > History. Democracy. Campaign debates > United States. Forums (Discussion and debate) > United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Local. Forums (Discussion and debate) Campaign debates. Local government. Public meetings. United States. Electronic books. History.
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Summary:	Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall meeting from its original context as a form of democratic community governance in New England into a format for presidential debates and a staple of corporate governance. In its contemporary iteration, the town hall meeting models the aesthetic of the former but replaces actual democratic deliberation with a spectacle that involves no immediate electoral stakes or functions as a glorified press conference. Urgently, Field notes that though this evolution might be apparent, evidence suggests many US citizens don't care to differentiate.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (77 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	1452963053 9781452963051 1517908566 9781517908560