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• ISBN: 030682020X
• ISBN: 9780306820205
• ISBN: 0306820218
• ISBN: 9780306820212
• ISBN: 0306820226
• ISBN: 9780306820229
• Physical Description: lii, 716 pages, 48 pages ; 17 cm
• Edition: 11th edition / new and enlarged ed. by Sarah Corbin Robert ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of Daniel E. Seabold, Shmuel Gerber.
• Publisher: Philadelphia : Da Capo Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"New and enhanced features of this edition include: clarified procedures for adopting an agenda, preparing and approving the minutes, and conducting board and committee meetings; more fully explained rules for counting ballots and resolving election disputes, plus a new quick-reference guide for tellers; a new subsection on electronic meetings; Important clarifications regarding the powers of an organization's Executive Board in relation to the general membership; detailed guidance for dealing with misconduct by officers and for holding disciplinary trials."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Deliberative assembly : its types and their rules -- Conduct of business in a deliberative assembly -- Description of motions in all classifications -- Meeting and session -- Main motion -- Subsidiary motions -- Privileged motions -- Incidental motions -- Motions that bring a question again before the assembly -- Renewal of motions : dilatory and improper motions -- Quorum : order of business and related concepts -- Assignment of the floor : debate -- Voting -- Nominations and elections -- Officers : minutes and officers' reports -- Boards and committees -- Mass meetings : organization of a permanent society -- Bylaws -- Conventions -- Disciplinary procedures -- Charts, tables, and lists

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Subject:

Parliamentary practice.