The Many And The Few
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Author | : Hilda Sábato |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804739443 |
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This book analyzes the relationship between the many and the few in the formation of a republican polity. It studies the case of Buenos Aires in the 1860s and 1870s, when the inauguration of a new national order in Argentina entailed a radical change in the ways of power. By exploring the different forms of participation of the people in the public life of the city, it illuminates a frequently neglected side of the process of construction and legitimization of political power in nineteenth-century Latin American societies. It also provides new historical evidence on the origins of democracy in Argentina, and proposes an interpretation of that process that challenges prevailing views. The book focuses on two major topics: the history of elections and electoral practices, and the creation and development of a public sphere. Its detailed, and often colorful, description of electoral procedures portrays a dynamic and competitive political life that contradicts traditional interpretations of the history of citizenship in Argentina. The author also argues that elections were not the only major element in the relationship between the many and the few, that these decades witnessed the formation of a public sphere: a space of mediation between civil society and the political realm, where different groups voiced their opinions and directly represented their claims. She studies three aspects of the life of the city that were symptoms of this process: the proliferation of associations, the expansion of the periodical press, and the development of a "culture of mobilization. The book concludes by assessing how its conclusions offer new clues to the study of the Argentine political system, the history of Latin American democracies, and, more generally, the relations between the many and the few in modern societies.
Author | : Henry Kraus |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780252011993 |
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The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic "inside" story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers as the sole bargaining agent in all GM plants. Through it all, UAW activist Henry Kraus was there.
Author | : John G. Matsusaka |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226510875 |
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Direct democracy is alive and well in the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the law into their own hands, overriding their elected officials to set tax, expenditure, and social policies. John G. Matsusaka's For the Many or the Few provides the first even-handed and historically based treatment of the subject. Drawing upon a century of evidence, Matsusaka argues against the popular belief that initiative measures are influenced by wealthy special interest groups that neglect the majority view. Examining demographic, political, and opinion data, he demonstrates how the initiative process brings about systematic changes in tax and expenditure policies of state and local governments that are generally supported by the citizens. He concludes that, by and large, direct democracy in the form of the initiative process works for the benefit of the many rather than the few. An unprecedented, comprehensive look at the historical, empirical, and theoretical components of how initiatives function within our representative democracy to increase political competition while avoiding the tyranny of the majority, For the Many or the Few is a most timely and definitive work.
Author | : Eric Carlton |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351889796 |
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Social scientists are concerned with élites of many kinds - bureaucracies, military oligarchies, political leaders and the like. The study of élites is frequently characterised by a certain suspicion, and the tone of the enquirer’s description and discussion of such groups is often sceptical if not actually hostile. While not simply an attempt to redress the balance, this book is intended to provide the reader with a fair idea of the nature and variety of élites and to offer some explanantions as to why societies over a remarkably wide range of time, space and economic development have evolved a structure in which a small group exercises a disproportionate power over the great mass of their fellows. The first section deals with theoretical approaches to élites and élitism, summarising and criticising work from Plato and Weber, Popper, Scruton and Bottomore. The second section consists of a number of historical and contemporary case studies, ranging from Classical Athens to late twentieth-century Western society, which individually and in combination illustrate and amplify the theoretical material. The final section draws together the main arguments in the form of a critique and conclusions.
Author | : Robert B. Reich |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0385350570 |
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Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. --Publisher.
Author | : Richard North |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620401010 |
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Immortalized in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "was so much owed by so few," the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend: Britain was saved from German invasion by the gallant band of Fighter Command Pilots in their Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the public owed them their freedom. Richard North's radical re-evaluation of the Battle of Britain dismantles this mythical retelling of events. Taking a wider perspective than the much-discussed air war, North takes a fresh look at the conflict as a whole to show that the civilian experience, far from being separate and distinct, was integral to the Battle. This recovery of the people's stolen history demonstrates that Hitler's aim was not the military conquest of England, and that his unattained target was the hearts and minds of British people.
Author | : George Richardson Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Corn laws (Great Britain) |
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Author | : James Arthur Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1846 |
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Download Railways for the Many and not for the few; or, how to make them profitable to all Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : ROMAN CATHOLIC. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1824 |
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Download Some few of the many reasons which must for ever attach a Roman Catholic to his religion, published by the prelates of the Province of Munster. Fourteenth edition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : William Coppinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1813 |
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