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Freedom is an endless meeting : democracy in American social movements / Francesca Polletta

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002

Online Ressource (xi, 283 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Polletta, Francesca : Freedom is an endless meeting. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-226-92428-1 (electronic bk.); 0-226-92428-9 (electronic bk.)

0-226-67448-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-226-67448-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-226-67448-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-226-67448-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-226-67449-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-226-67449-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-224-67449-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-226-67448-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

9780226674483

OCoLC: 823505321 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HN57

303.4840973 ; 303.48/4/0973     Ähnliche Literatur

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LOC-SH: 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 -- USA ; Electronic books ; Community organization -- United States ; Political participation -- United States ; Group decision making -- United States ; Social movements -- United States

Electronic books ; United States ; USA ; Community organization ; Group decision making ; Political participation ; Social movements ; Sociale bewegingen ; Democratisering ; Politische Beteiligung ; Demokratie ; Soziale Bewegung ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General

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