Participating in the United States: Town Meetings

No 15, 2016/2 - 274 pages

Special Report: Participating in the United States: Town Meetings

Pages 5 to 47

Introduction. Town Meetings, a Founding Myth of American Democracy

By Paula Cossart, Andrea Felicetti, James Kloppenberg

Pages 49 to 50

Translator’s Note

By Xavier Blandin

Pages 51 to 82

21st Century Town Hall Meetings in the 1990s and 2000s: Deliberative Demonstrations and the Commodification of Political Authenticity in an Era of Austerity

By Caroline W. Lee

Pages 83 to 102

The Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in America

By Michael Zuckerman

Pages 103 to 122

Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Town Meetings in Seventeenth-Century New England

By David D. Hall

Pages 123 to 147

Indigenous People and the New England Town Meeting: Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1730-1775

By Daniel R. Mandell

Pages 149 to 173

The Town Meeting Ideal and Race in America

By Sandra M. Gustafson

Pages 175 to 202

A “Peaceable and Orderly Manner”: Town Meetings and Other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding Era

By Robert W. T. Martin

Pages 203 to 220

What Does the Study of Town Meetings Bring to the Quest for a More Participatory and Deliberative Democracy?

By interview with Frank M. Bryan, William W. Keith, James T. Kloppenberg, Jane Jebb Mansbridge, Michael E. Morrell, Graham Smith

Varia

Pages 221 to 257

The Development of the Valley of Bou Regreg Project to Test Public Inquiry and Communal Deliberations

By Hicham Mouloudi

Close Reading

Pages 259 to 271

Pluralism, Independence and Diversity: Can We Still “Save the Media”?

By Romain Badouard