Partocracy to the Printers

The New Book is Done

Every winter since retirement, I have written a book. I’m proud to say that my latest book has been sent to the printers and the Kindle version is now available on Amazon. After several months of work, the book entitled, “PARTOCRACY: A Participant’s Guide to Parliamentary Democracy” is finally done and ready for publication.

This book is different from other books of the parliamentary procedure genre. Nearly every other book is written for the meeting chairman or a parliamentarian, but this book is written for the uninformed, novice meeting attendee who has been quietly sitting in the back of the meeting, maybe just participating by voting but would like to become more involved in the workings of a meeting which meets under Robert’s Rules of Order or even other rules of order. This guide turns traditional methods of introducing rules of order on its head. Here, I guide the hesitant from first efforts at speaking and providing seconds, through postponements and amends and lastly to the idea of introducing new business through main motions.

It is arranged as a series of lessons, with assignments, so perfect for training meeting attendees to do better at using and applying the rules. I’m going to be using it as a take home guide for the training which I provide these groups.

If you receive this email, then you know that I discuss parliamentary procedures with a twist from just simply a boring discussion of the rules. The rules are important but they exist in a bigger world, a world that I like to talk about and consider.

I hope you will join me and enjoy my explorations of the intersection of parliamentary practice and democracy, but there is an unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email.

Thanks!

Steven J. Bolen, PRP
RulesDoneRight.com

Author of:
The Coming Dark Age: The Impact of the War to Ban Fossil Fuels
PARTOCRACY: A Participant’s Guide to Parliamentary Democracy

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