Challenging authority
Subtitle: how ordinary people change America
By: Frances Fox Piven
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Polemics; Polemics (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Distributed by National Book Network
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780742563162
Subjects: Politics and government; Civil disobedience; Protest movements; History; Political culture; Elections
Description: "What do the American Revolution, the abolitionist movement, the labor movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement have in common? These are examples of the profound moments in American history when ordinary Americans collectively and persuasively told the government ENOUGH! 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-183) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The nature of disruptive power; title: The mob and the state : disruptive power and the construction of American electoral-representative arrangements; title: Dissensus politics, or the interaction of disruptive challenges with electoral politics : the case of the abolitionist movement; title: Movements and reform in the American twentieth century; title: The times-in-between.