Volume 15 • Issue 2 • 2019 • Special Issue: The New England Town Meeting: A Founding Myth of American Democracy


Introduction

Introduction: The New England Town Meeting: A Founding Myth of American Democracy
Introduction: The New England Town Meeting: A Founding Myth of American Democracy

Paula Cossart, Andrea Felicetti and James Kloppenberg

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Research Article

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

Caroline W. Lee

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Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in America
Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in America

Michael Zuckerman

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

David D. Hall

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

Daniel R. Mandell

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The Town Meeting Ideal and Race in America
The Town Meeting Ideal and Race in America

Sandra M. Gustafson

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A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding
A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding

Robert W. T. Martin

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Collective Interview on the History of Town Meetings
Collective Interview on the History of Town Meetings

Frank Bryan, William Keith, James Kloppenberg, Jane Mansbridge, Michael Morrell and Graham Smith

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Reflections from the Field

What We Can Learn from Town Meetings
What We Can Learn from Town Meetings

Matt Leighninger

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Beyond the Myth of the Town Meeting: Discursive Engagement as Governance
Beyond the Myth of the Town Meeting: Discursive Engagement as Governance

Timothy J. Shaffer

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