The Rituals of Public Meetings.
Public meetings are often referred to as “rituals” to denote a largely symbolic activity with little concrete meaning. This essay explores how public meeting rituals may produce very real impacts on participants and pragmatic outcomes. Whereas tangible outputs of rituals are not always evident, ritu...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 122 - 131 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan/Feb2010
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