TY - BOOK AU - Field,Jonathan Beecher ED - Project Muse. TI - Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation / T2 - Forerunners: Ideas First SN - 9781452963051 PY - 2019/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Public meetings KW - fast KW - Local government KW - Democracy KW - Campaign debates KW - Forums (Discussion and debate) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - American Government KW - Local KW - bisacsh KW - Forums (Discussions et debats) KW - États-Unis KW - Élections KW - Debats KW - Administration locale KW - Histoire KW - Reunions publiques KW - United States KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68006/ ER -