Challenging authority : how ordinary people change America / Frances Fox Piven.

Author/creator Piven, Frances Fox
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield : Distributed by National Book Network, ©2006.
Descriptionvii, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesPolemics
Polemics. ^A537620
Contents The nature of disruptive power -- The mob and the state : disruptive power and the construction of American electoral-representative arrangements -- Dissensus politics, or the interaction of disruptive challenges with electoral politics -- Movements and reform in the American twentieth century -- The times-in-between.
Local noteLittle-360473--305131066456/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 147-183) and index.
LCCN 2006012517
ISBN0742515354 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742515352