The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction

<p>The <em>politics of town meetings</em> proposes that town hall meetings are institutions of representative democracy that present an opportunity for constituents to hold their elected representatives accountable in a public setting. <em>Constituent relations-in-interaction</em> glosses a complex set of interactional practices and procedures through which ensembles of participants bring town hall meetings, as structures of social interaction, into being. This study uses conversation analysis, the study of talk-in-interaction, to show that the politics of town hall meetings orients to three types of accountability: Interactional accountability, political accountability, and public accountability. The articulation of these accountability types provides a sense of overall-structural organization to the structure and activities giving shape to town hall meetings.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Green, Robert J

Contributors dc:contributor

• Felicia D. Roberts
• Joshua E. Boyd
• Thomas J. Rickert
• Joshua M. Scacco

• Social sciences
• Communication and the arts
• Accountability
• Conversation analysis
• Politics
• Public participation
• Town hall meetings
• Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
• Communication
• Political Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/764

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-1956