Andy Blunden

The Origins of Collective Decision Making

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Produktbeschreibung

The Origins of Collective Decision Making, identifies three paradigms of collective decision making - Counsel, Majority and Consensus, and discovers their origins in traditional, medieval and modern times, and traces their evolution over centuries up to the current juncture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9789004314962
• ISBN-10: 9004314962
• Artikelnr.: 44588292

Autorenporträt

Andy Blunden is an editor of the journal Mind, Culture, and Activity and Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive. He published with Brill: An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity (2010), Concepts: A Critical Approach (2012) and Collaborative Projects: An Interdisciplinary Study (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Collective Decision Making
Realist Historical Investigation
PART 1. MAJORITY
The British Trade Unions in 1824
Anglo-Saxon England
The Guilds
The Methodist Church
London Corresponding Society
The Chartists
The Communist Secret Societies
The General Workers Unions
The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism
PART 2. CONSENSUS
English Revolution and the Quakers
The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania
New England Town Meetings
The Peace and Civil Rights Movements
Myles Horton and the Highlander
The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches
Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace
The Quakers and Movement for a New Society
Anarchism and Decision Making
PART 3. THE POST WORLD WAR SETTLEMENT
The Negation of Social Movements
The Negation of Negation ? the rise of alliance politics
Alliance politics
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX