Frances Fox Piven, Frances Fax Piven

Challenging Authority

How Ordinary People Change America

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise real power in American politics mainly at those extraordinary moments when they rise up in anger and hope; defy the rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives; and, by doing so, disrupt the workings of the institutions in which they are enmeshed. These are the conditions that produce the democratic moments in American political development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780742515352
• ISBN-10: 0742515354
• Artikelnr.: 21537385

Autorenporträt

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School at the City University of New York and past president of the American Sociological Association. She is the author of several books, including The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (2004) and Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1 Challenging Authority Chapter 2 2 The Nature of Disruptive
Power Chapter 3 3 The Mob and the State: Disruptive Power and the
Construction of American Electoral-Representative Arrangements Chapter 4 4
Dissensus Politics, or the Interaction of Disruptive Challenges with
Electoral Politics: The Case of the Abolitionist Movement Chapter 5 5
Movements and Reform in the American Twentieth Century Chapter 6 6. The
Times-In-Between Chapter 7 Epilogue