If you have ever attended a town meeting or business lunch, or participated in a church group or department meeting, or served on a faculty senate or maybe just watched C-SPAN, then you have likely encountered "Robert's Rules of Order." This critical edition of Henry M. Robert's essential guide to parliamentary procedure features the…

Many countries keep official records of parliamentary debates. In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore, these transcriptions are referred to as Hansard, providing a rich resource for researchers exploring the historical and contextual background of governmental policy and legislation. This case study draws on the original…

This is not a manual on parliamentary procedure. It is a discussion that posits that parliamentary procedure is not a complicated and esoteric subject of interest and of use only to an enlightened few who have the fortitude to plow through a whole manual on the subject, but that parliamentary procedure is a practical tool of leadership. Three…

Rules for parliamentary procedure are essential to any organization in the conduct of its business sessions. Originally these rules were devised to guide a parliament or congress in orderly procedure. In student councils and other school organizations, there is not time to consider orderly procedure as deeply as parliaments must--nor is there need…