{"product_id":"town-hall-meetings-and-the-death-of-deliberation-9781517908560","title":"Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Forerunners: Ideas First\u003cbr\u003e Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In clear, sometimes acerbic, even humorous prose, Field adeptly accounts for the metamorphosis of town meetings into town halls.\"—\u003ci\u003eALH Online Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409710883159,"sku":"9781517908560","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517908560.jpg?v=1730507759","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/town-hall-meetings-and-the-death-of-deliberation-9781517908560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}