Title:
Challenges of ordinary democracy : a case study in deliberation and dissent
Author:
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780271036892
9780271036908
Abstract:
"Analyzes the practice and meanings of democratic decision making through an extended case study of school board meetings in one western U.S. community. Argues that for communication conduct in local governance bodies, reasonable hostility is a more promising ideal than civility"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Public meetings : ordinary democracy's home -- A historical snapshot : three years of BVSD life -- Democracy : an ideal with traction -- Citizen participation, doing dissent -- Newspapers in the cycle of political upheaval -- The campaign : the usefulness of platitudes and personal attack -- A fight over words and policy -- One meeting : six observations -- Reasonable hostility in ordinary democracy
Language:
English
