TY  - BOOK
AU  - Field,Jonathan Beecher
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation
T2  - Forerunners: Ideas First
SN  - 9781452963051
AV  - JS391 .F54 2019
U1  - 320.80973 23
KW  - Public meetings
KW  - fast
KW  - Local government
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Campaign debates
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - town hall meetings
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License; Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references; 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68006/
ER  -