Author: Susan Slack
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Town Meeting and School Meeting Handbook
Author: Susan Slack
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Publisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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New Hampshire Town Meeting and School Meeting Handbook
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Town Meeting and School Meeting Handbook
Author: New Hampshire Local Government Association
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Town Meeting Handbook
Author: Brookline (Mass.). Town Meeting Members' Association
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Town Meeting Handbook
Author: Francis F. Mills
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Category : Danvers (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Danvers (Mass.)
Languages : en
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Town Meeting Handbook
Author: Maine Municipal Association
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Town Meeting
Author: Austin De Wolf
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Town Meeting Discussion Leader's Handbook
Author: George Vernon Denny (Jr.)
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Category : America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Real Democracy
Author: Frank M. Bryan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226077985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226077985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
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.
The Connecticut Town Meeting
Author: Patricia Stuart
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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