Town Hall Meetings And The Death Of Deliberation Av Jonathan Beecher Field

<P><B>Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible</B><BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/><BR/> Forerunners: Ideas First<BR/> Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead </P>

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