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Author : Joseph Francis Zimmerman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (799 download)
Download or read book The New England Town Meeting and de Facto Representation written by Joseph Francis Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003637
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The New England Town Meeting written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joseph F. Zimmerman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The New England Town Meeting written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Civic Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peltason
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ISBN 13 : 9780131838116
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (381 download)
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Author : International City/County Management Association
Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
ISBN 13 : 9780873269735
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The Municipal Year Book written by International City/County Management Association and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Premat, Christophe Emmanuel
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799873064
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Direct Democracy Practices at the Local Level written by Premat, Christophe Emmanuel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct democracy, or pure democracy, is a concept spreading throughout the world, now adopted by nearly 30 countries on the national level. While the concept is not new, it is important to investigate the current benefits or hinderances of direct democracy related to local governments so that they may be implemented further. Direct Democracy Practices at the Local Level deepens the knowledge of direct democracy in political science. This book explores how local governments utilize these instruments in international governments and analyzes a series of popular initiatives and local referenda to how successful these initiatives are. Covering topics such as religious rights, street committees, and climate change, this book is essential for political science students and professors, policymakers, faculty, local governments, academicians, and researchers in political science with an interest in direct democracy procedures in representative systems.
Author : Kenneth T. Palmer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287181
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Maine Politics & Government written by Kenneth T. Palmer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote and thinly populated, Maine has been insulated from many of the demo-graphic and economic trends of states to the south. But Maine Politics and Government shows how rapidly this situation is changing. In the 1970s and 1980s, Maine?once dependent on agriculture, manufacturing, and maritime trades?underwent extensive commercial development. High-tech businesses and fashionable suburbs, concentrated in the southern counties, began to assert a new political force. The authors of this book view these changes in the context of the state's long history. Although Maine's population and economy have become more diversified, its public policies more complex, and its government more professionalized and centralized, there remains a remarkable degree of stability in political attitudes. And Maine still operates under its original 1819 constitution; the amendments added over time have largely maintained its original structure while allowing for changing conditions. This book illumi-nates the workings of Maine's executive, legislative, and judicial branches and its relations with the federal government, as well as local concerns, without losing sight of the Pine Tree State's uniqueness.
Author : Jonathan Beecher Field
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452962383
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation written by Jonathan Beecher Field and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall meeting from its original context as a form of democratic community governance in New England into a format for presidential debates and a staple of corporate governance. In its contemporary iteration, the town hall meeting models the aesthetic of the former but replaces actual democratic deliberation with a spectacle that involves no immediate electoral stakes or functions as a glorified press conference. Urgently, Field notes that though this evolution might be apparent, evidence suggests many US citizens don’t care to differentiate. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Author : Bernd Reiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786603667
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead written by Bernd Reiter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers insights into the Global Justice Movement – an influential transnational movement and predecessor of the recent struggles for economic and social justice and against austerity.
Author : Richard P. Kollen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625858094
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution written by Richard P. Kollen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere arrived at the parsonage of Reverend Jonas Clarke to deliver a warning to its occupants, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The following morning brought the first shots of the American Revolution to a community Clarke inspired to face such a harsh reality. He called on his parish to oppose imperial legislation for years leading up to the war. And as Lexington's minister for half a century, he was central to political, civic and social life there until his death in 1805. Historian Richard P. Kollen reveals the often overlooked story of the man who helped shape the spirit of the American Revolution.
Author : Daniel Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887372
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Citizens without Sovereignty written by Daniel Gordon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an authoritarian regime. A penetrating critique of those who exaggerate either the radicalism of the Enlightenment or the hegemony of the absolutist state, his book documents the invention of an ethos that was neither democratic nor absolutist, an ethos that idealized communication and private life. The key to this ethos was "sociability," and Gordon offers the first detailed study of the language and ideas that gave this concept its meaning in the Old Regime. Citizens without Sovereignty provides a wealth of information about the origins and usage of key words, such as société and sociabilité, in French thought. From semantic fields of meaning, Gordon goes on to consider institutional fields of action. Focusing on the ubiquitous idea of "society" as a depoliticized sphere of equality, virtue, and aesthetic cultivation, he marks out the philosophical space that lies between the idea of democracy and the idea of the royal police state. Within this space, Gordon reveals the channels of creative action that are open to citizens without sovereignty--citizens who have no right to self-government. His work is thus a contribution to general historical sociology as well as French intellectual history. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ronald F. Demers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Modernization in a New England Town written by Ronald F. Demers and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Francis Zimmerman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Massachusetts Town Meeting written by Joseph Francis Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael W. Cluskey
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Total Pages : 794 pages
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Author : International City Management Association
Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
ISBN 13 : 9780873269599
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Municipal Year Book, 1984 written by International City Management Association and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
