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The New England Town Meeting : Democracy in Action by Joseph Francis Zimmerman is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is The New England Town Meeting : Democracy in Action about?
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
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Francis Zimmerman
- Publisher
- Praeger; Praeger Publishers
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313003639
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Social Science, Social Sciences, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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