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Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Polemics)
Challenging Authority How Ordinary People Change America - Polemics Author:Frances Fox Piven Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise real power in American politics mainly at those extraordinary moments when they rise up in anger and hope; defy the rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives; and, by doing so, disrupt the workings of the institutions in which they are enmeshed. These are the conditions that produce... more » the democratic moments in American political development.« less