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Author Field, Jonathan Beecher, author.

Title Town hall meetings and the death of deliberation / Jonathan Beecher Field.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource (77 pages).
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Series Forerunners: Ideas First
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Contents Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: This Is What Looks like Democracy; Town Meeting as Democratic Ideal; Town Hall Meeting as Debate Format; Town Hall Meeting as Constituent Service; Town Hall Meeting as Campus Spectacle; Town Hall Meeting as Corporate Event; The Future of the Town Hall Meeting; Conclusion; Acknowledgments
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Public meetings -- United States -- History.
Local government -- United States -- History.
Democracy.
Campaign debates -- United States.
Forums (Discussion and debate) -- United States.
Réunions publiques -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Administration locale -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Élections -- Débats -- États-Unis.
Forums (Discussions et débats) -- États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Local.
Forums (Discussion and debate)
Campaign debates
Democracy
Local government
Public meetings
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Indexed Term Regional, state & other local government
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Field, Jonathan Beecher. Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2019 9781517908560
ISBN 1452963053
9781452963051 (electronic bk.)
1517908566
9781517908560
1517908566
9781517908560
Standard No. 9781517908560
AU@ 000066133085
AU@ 000067189630

 
    
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