Date of Award
8-2016
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Felicia D. Roberts
Committee Chair
Felicia D. Roberts
Committee Member 1
Joshua E. Boyd
Committee Member 2
Thomas J. Rickert
Committee Member 3
Joshua M. Scacco
Abstract
The politics of town meetings 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. Constituent relations-in-interaction 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.
Recommended Citation
Green, Robert J., "The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction" (2016). Open Access Dissertations. 764.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/764
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