| Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Contributor(s): Field, Jonathan Beecher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517908566 ISBN-13: 9781517908560 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - Local - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Series: Forerunners: Ideas First |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5" W x 6.8" (0.75 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible 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. Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead |