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The origins of collective decision making / by Andy Blunden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blunden, Andy, author.
- Series:
- Studies in critical social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group decision making--Case studies.
- Group decision making.
- Political sociology.
- Deliberative democracy.
- Social history.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 257 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Summary:
- In The Origins of Collective Decision Making, Andy Blunden identifies three paradigms of collective decision making - Counsel, Majority and Consensus, discovers their origins in traditional, medieval and modern times, and traces their evolution over centuries up to the present. The study reveals that these three paradigms have an ethical foundation, deeply rooted in historical experiences. The narrative takes the reader into the very moments when individual leaders and organisers made the crucial developments in white heat of critical moments in history, such as the English Revolution of the 1640s, the Chartist Movement of the 1840s and the early Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This history provides a valuable resource for resolving current social movement conflict over decision making. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Majority
- The British Trade Unions in 1824 23
- Anglo-Saxon England 28
- The Witenagemot 30
- The Norman Imposition 38
- The Question of Continuity 40
- Medieval Church Practice 41
- The Guilds 43
- Oxford and Cambridge University 53
- The Hanseatic League 58
- The Methodist Church 60
- London Corresponding Society 69
- The Chartists 83
- The Communist Secret Societies 101
- The General Workers Unions 106
- The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism 113
- Europe between the Wars 116
- The Front 118
- Part 2 Consensus
- English Revolution and the Quakers 128
- The English Revolution 128
- The Levellers and the New Model Army 129
- Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers 135
- Ranters and Seekers 139
- The Quakers 142
- The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania 150
- The Quaker Critique 154
- New England Town Meetings 156
- The Peace and Civil Rights Movements 159
- James Lawson 165
- Myles Horton and the Highlander 174
- SNCC 186
- The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches 192
- African Decision Making 192
- The Baptist Church under Slavery 193
- Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace 197
- Women Strike for Peace 200
- The "Structure" of WSP 203
- WSP and Feminism 206
- The Quakers and Movement for a New Society 210
- Anarchism and Decision Making 215
- The International Workingmen's Association 1864 216
- The Spanish Anarchists 221
- Summary 228
- Part 3 The Post World War Settlement
- The Negation of Social Movements 236
- The Negation of Negation - The Rise of Alliance Politics 239
- Alliance Politics 240
- Conclusion 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Blunden, Andy, author. Origins of collective decision making
- ISBN:
- 9789004314962
- 9004314962
- 9789004319639
- 9004319638
- OCLC:
- 938394111
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