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Record Nr.

UNINA9910389552803321

Autore

Field Jonathan Beecher

Titolo

Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation / Jonathan Beecher Field

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4529-6305-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (77 pages)

Collana

Forerunners: Ideas First

Disciplina

320.80973

Soggetti

Public meetings

Local government

Democracy

Campaign debates

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local

town hall meetings

Campaign debates - United States

Local government - United States - History

Public meetings - United States - History

History

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.