Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation

by Jonathan Beecher Field

Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517908566
• ISBN13: 9781517908560
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 6.8"