Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781282496316 (128249631X)
Publish date: January 1st 2008
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Piven asks, “given the power inequalities of American life and the extent to which electoral-representative arrangements are twisted by those inequalities, how does egalitarian reform ever occur in the United States?” The answer, she suggests, is that “the rare intervals of nonincremental democrati...