Town Meeting Handbook
Author : Brookline (Mass.). Town Meeting Members' Association
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Brookline (Mass.). Town Meeting Members' Association
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Francis F. Mills
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Danvers (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Frank M. Bryan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226077985
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Author : Austin De Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Local government
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Maine Municipal Association
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : George Vernon Denny (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1940
Category : America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
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Author : League of Women Voters of Wayland (Mass.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1955*
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Author : New Hampshire Local Government Association
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Ann G. Macfarlane
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Local government
ISBN : 9781482708189
"Mastering Council Meetings guides councils toward smooth, efficient, and fair meetings using effective leadership principles and practices grounded in Robert's Rules of Order."--Back cover.