The local school board is one of America's enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-de
Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have
Contributors in communication studies explore encounters between marginalized people and states within the context of the process of social transformation arising from conflict. They describe how grou
Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, at times viewing it as opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engage
