03316oam 22006974a 450 991038955280332120210915045156.01-4529-6305-3(CKB)4100000009347593(MiAaPQ)EBC5897892(OCoLC)1120692473(MdBmJHUP)muse78402(EXLCZ)99410000000934759320190921d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTown Hall Meetings and the Death of DeliberationJonathan Beecher FieldMinneapolis, Minnesota ;London :University of Minnesota Press,2019.1 online resource (77 pages)Forerunners: Ideas FirstCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Description based upon print version of record.1-5179-0856-6 Includes bibliographical references.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; AcknowledgmentsJonathan 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 FirstPublic meetingsfast(OCoLC)fst01082756Local governmentfast(OCoLC)fst01001300Democracyfast(OCoLC)fst00890077Campaign debatesfast(OCoLC)fst00844841POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Localbisacshtown hall meetingsCampaign debatesUnited StatesDemocracyLocal governmentUnited StatesHistoryPublic meetingsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesfastHistory.Electronic books. Public meetings.Local government.Democracy.Campaign debates.POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Localtown hall meetingsCampaign debatesDemocracy.Local governmentHistory.Public meetingsHistory.320.80973Field Jonathan Beecher. 926218MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910389552803321Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation2439521UNINA