Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation

• 1. Verfasser: Field, Jonathan Beecher (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: University of Minnesota Press 2019
• Schlagworte: Regional government; Regional, state & other local government
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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...