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: | English |
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
2019, 2019
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| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 77 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781517908560 1517908566 1452963053 |