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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Field, Jonathan Beecher (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press 2019
2019.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Forerunners: Ideas First
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (77 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781452963051