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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy

A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Karen Tracy, University of Colorado at Boulder) Tracy, Karen (Professor of Communicationx

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Is there any place in America where passionate debate plays a more vital role in democratic discourse than local school board meetings? Karen Tracy conducted a thirty-five-month study of the board meetings of the Boulder Valley School District between 1996 and 1999 to analyze just how democracy operates in practice. In Challenges of Ordinary Democracy, she reveals the major role that emotion plays in real-life debate and discerns value in what might easily be seen as negative forms of discourse—voicing platitudes, making contradictory assertions, arguing over a document’s wording, speaking angrily, attacking a person's character. By illuminating this one arena of “ordinary democracy,” Tracy hopes to engender a new appreciation for how what she calls “reasonable hostility” can be a desirable ideal of communication for debating public policy issues.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-07-15
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor264
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271036908

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ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1. Public Meetings: Ordinary Democracy’s Home2.A Historical Snapshot: Three Years of BVSD Life3.“Democracy”: An Ideal with Traction4.Citizen Participation, Doing Dissent5. Newspapers in the Cycle of Political Upheaval6.The Campaign: The Usefulness of Platitudes and Personal Attack7. A Fight over Words and Policy8. One Meeting: Six Observations9.Reasonable Hostility in Ordinary DemocracyPostscript: Education Governance in Twenty-First-Century AmericaAppendix: The Method and DataReferencesIndex

“In Challenges of Ordinary Democracy, Karen Tracy draws us close to the workings of self-government in modern America. There, we can see the balance that must be struck between deliberative norms of civility and the emotional power of dissent and grievance. Tracy’s provocative idea of ‘reasonable hostility’ as a model for effective local politics will stir controversy, but she will certainly have stimulated more grounded thinking about the complex interactions of officeholders and citizens in free societies.”—John Gastil, University of Washington