Challenges of Ordinary Democracy Download

Author: Karen Tracy
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0271036893

Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)

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. Download Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 hopes to engender a new appreciation for how what she Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.