Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field.
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TextSeries: Forerunners: Ideas FirstDescription: 1 online resource (1 online resource 89 pages.)ISBN: 9781452963051; 1452963053Subject(s): Public meetings | Local government | Democracy | Campaign debates | POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local | town hall meetings | Campaign debates -- United States | Democracy | Local government -- United States -- History | Public meetings -- United States -- History | United StatesGenre/Form: History. | Electronic books. | Electronic books. | Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Town Hall Meetings and the Death of DeliberationDDC classification: 320.80973 LOC classification: JS391 | .F54 2019Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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
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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.
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