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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 1955
Category : City planning
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Solar energy
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Author : New Hampshire. Supreme Court
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1999-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313003637
In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Author : New Hampshire
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
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Page : 954 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : New Hampshire. Supreme Court
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Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : New Hampshire
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Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Session laws
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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