Title Town hall meetings and the death of deliberation / Jonathan Beecher Field.

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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

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Description	1 online resource (77 pages).
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Series	Forerunners: Ideas First
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Note	Print version record.
Contents	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
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Subject	Public meetings -- United States -- History.
	Local government -- United States -- History.
	Democracy.
	Campaign debates -- United States.
	town hall meetings.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Local.
	Campaign debates. (OCoLC)fst00844841
	Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
	Local government. (OCoLC)fst01001300
	Public meetings. (OCoLC)fst01082756
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Field, Jonathan Beecher. Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2019 9781517908560
ISBN	9781452963051 (electronic book)

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