Challenges of Ordinary Democracy A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent

Name: Challenges of Ordinary Democracy A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
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ISBN: 9780271036908

ISBN-10: 0271036907

ISBN-13: 9780271036908

Edition: 2010

Authors: Karen Tracy

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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 people's character. By illuminating this one arena of "ordinary democracy," Tracy…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 7/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments



Public Meetings: Ordinary Democracy's Home



A Historical Snapshot: Three Years of BVSD Life



"Democracy": An Ideal with Traction



Citizen Participation, Doing Dissent



Newspapers in the Cycle of Political Upheaval



The Campaign: The Usefulness of Platitudes and Personal Attack



A Fight over Words and Policy



One Meeting: Six Observations



Reasonable Hostility in Ordinary Democracy


Postscript: Education Governance in Twenty-First-Century America


Appendix: The Method and Data


References


Index