The origins of collective decision making

The origins of collective decision making /

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 tha...

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Main Author: Blunden, Andy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; 84.
Subjects:
Group decision making > Case studies.
Political sociology.
Deliberative democracy.
Social history.
Social Conditions
social history.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Collective decision making
  • Realist historical investigation
  • The British trade unions in 1824
  • Anglo-Saxon England
  • The guilds
  • The Methodist church
  • London Corresponding Society
  • The chartists
  • The communist secret societies
  • The General Workers Unions
  • The end of uncritical majoritarianism
  • English revolution and the Quakers
  • The Quakers in twentieth century Pennsylvania
  • New England town meetings
  • The peace and civil rights movements
  • Myles Horton and highlander
  • The African and slave roots of the black Baptist churches
  • Eleanor Garst and women strike for peace
  • The Quakers and movement for a new society
  • Anarchism and decision making
  • The negation of social movements
  • The negation of negation: the rise of alliance politics
  • Alliance politics

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