Participating in the United States: Town Meetings No 15, 2016/2 - pagesPages 5 to 47Introduction. Town Meetings, a Founding Myth of American DemocracyBy Paula Cossart, Andrea Felicetti, James T. KloppenbergPages 49 to 50Translator’s NoteBy Xavier BlandinPages 51 to 8221st Century Town Hall Meetings in the 1990s and 2000s: Deliberative Demonstrations and the Commodification of Political Authenticity in an Era of AusterityBy Caroline W. LeePages 83 to 102The Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in AmericaBy Michael ZuckermanPages 103 to 122Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Town Meetings in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandBy David D. HallPages 123 to 147Indigenous People and the New England Town Meeting: Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1730-1775By Daniel R. MandellPages 149 to 173The Town Meeting Ideal and Race in AmericaBy Sandra M. GustafsonPages 175 to 202A “Peaceable and Orderly Manner”: Town Meetings and Other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding EraBy Robert W. T. MartinPages 203 to 220What 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 SmithPages 221 to 257The Development of the Valley of Bou Regreg Project to Test Public Inquiry and Communal DeliberationsBy Hicham MouloudiPages 259 to 271Pluralism, Independence and Diversity: Can We Still “Save the Media”?By Romain Badouard