Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation

• Tác giả: Jonathan Beecher Field
• ISBN-13: 978-1452963051
• ISBN-13: 978-1517908560
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 320.80973 Local government
• Thông tin xuất bản: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 89 pages.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244677
• Chủ đề: 1. Campaign debates; 2. Democracy; 3. Local government; 4. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local; 5. Public meetings

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

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.