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Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polletta, Francesca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Temas:
Social movements > United States.
Community organization > United States.
Political participation > United States.
Group decision making > United States.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis.
Organisation communautaire > États-Unis.
Participation politique > États-Unis.
Décision de groupe > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Community organization
Group decision making
Political participation
Social movements
Politische Beteiligung
Demokratie
Soziale Bewegung
Sociale bewegingen.
Democratisering.
United States
USA
UNITED STATES.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy in early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, in the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226924281
0226924289
0226674487
9780226674483

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