Challenges of Ordinary Democracy - A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent

About the author

Karen Tracy is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Karen (Professor of Communicationx Tracy, Tracy Karen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2011
• EAN: 9780271036908
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03690-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Schaubilder
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Linguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Communication Studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics