Challenging Authority - How Ordinary People Change America

Informationen zum Autor By Frances Fox Piven Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Frances Fax Piven, Frances Fox Piven
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2008
• EAN: 9780742563162
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6316-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Polemics; Print on Demand; Polemics
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs