The origins of collective decision making /
by Andy Blunden.
- 1 online resource
- Studies in critical social sciences ; 84 .
- Studies in critical social sciences ; 84. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro -- The Origins of Collective Decision Making -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Collective Decision Making -- Four Paradigms of Collective Decision Making -- Three Paradigms of Collaboration -- Realist Historical Investigation -- Part 1: Majority -- The British Trade Unions in 1824 -- Anglo-Saxon England -- The Witenagemot -- The Norman Imposition -- The Question of Continuity -- Medieval Church Practice -- The Guilds -- Oxford and Cambridge University -- The Hanseatic League -- The Methodist Church -- London Corresponding Society -- The Chartists -- The Communist Secret Societies -- The General Workers Unions -- The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism -- Europe between the Wars -- The Front -- Part 2: Consensus -- English Revolution and the Quakers -- The English Revolution -- The Levellers and the New Model Army -- Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers -- Ranters and Seekers -- The Quakers -- The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania -- The Quaker Critique -- New England Town Meetings -- The Peace and Civil Rights Movements -- James Lawson -- Myles Horton and the Highlander -- SNCC -- The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches -- African Decision Making -- The Baptist Church under Slavery -- Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace -- Women Strike for Peace -- The "Structure" of WSP -- WSP and Feminism -- The Quakers and Movement for a New Society -- Anarchism and Decision Making -- The International Workingmen's Association 1864 -- The Spanish Anarchists -- Summary -- Part 3: The Post World War Settlement -- The Negation of Social Movements -- The Negation of Negation -- The Rise of Alliance Politics -- Alliance Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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.
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Group decision making--Case studies. Political sociology. Deliberative democracy. Social history. POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture. Deliberative democracy. Group decision making. Political sociology. Social history.