Author: William Doyle Publisher: ISBN: 9780961548612 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
This revised Bicentennial Edition includes the 1990 election in Vermont & the winning campaign of Independent Bernard Saunders, the first Socialist elected to Congress in 50 years. Themes of the book include independence, citizen legislature, political participation, the Vermont Town Meeting, political equality & support for public education & the environment. University of Vermont Professor Sam Hand termed the book "the best short introduction to Vermont politics available." The book has been adopted by many schools & colleges.
Author: William T. Doyle Publisher: ISBN: 9780961548605 Category : Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
This revised Bicentennial Edition includes the 1990 election in Vermont & the winning campaign of Independent Bernard Saunders, the first Socialist elected to Congress in 50 years. Themes of the book include independence, citizen legislature, political participation, the Vermont Town Meeting, political equality & support for public education & the environment. University of Vermont Professor Sam Hand termed the book "the best short introduction to Vermont politics available." The book has been adopted by many schools & colleges.
Author: Michael Perman Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807144029 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
This book explores the South's distinctive political history and practices, resulting from what the author suggests is the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s.
Author: Wolfgang Mieder Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299154547 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Demonstrates how proverbs and to a lesser extent proverbial expressions, have played a significant role in political life during the 20th century. Takes as major examples the speeches and writings of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman to show how proverbs can be brought into the service of most any ideology. Also traces the use of proverbs and their cartoon analogues during the five decades of Cold War propaganda, and proverbial slurs against Native Americans and Asian Americans. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Frank M. Bryan 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.
Author: Lee Ward Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107320445 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 478
Book Description
This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study illuminates how these first Whigs and their diverse eighteenth-century intellectual heirs such as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, Otis, Jefferson, Burke, and Paine contributed to the formation of Anglo-American political and constitutional theory in the crucial period from the Glorious Revolution through to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first state constitutions.