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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London :
University of Minnesota Press
2019
2019. |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434182606719 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (77 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781452963051 |
