Frances Fox Piven

Challenging Authority

How Ordinary People Change America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in American history, Frances Fox Piven shows that it is precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of self-restricting political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

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Produktdetails

• Polemics
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780742563162
• ISBN-10: 0742563162
• Artikelnr.: 23888824

Autorenporträt

By Frances Fox Piven

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