Description: Further DetailsTitle: Uncivil DisobedienceCondition: NewSubtitle: Studies in Violence and Democratic PoliticsISBN-10: 069113877XEAN: 9780691138770ISBN: 9780691138770Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/22/2008Description: Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and institutions as limitations on the will of the people. Kirkpatrick looks at some of the most explosive instances of uncivil disobedience in American history: the contemporary militia movement, Southern lynch mobs, frontier vigilantism, and militant abolitionism. She argues that the groups behind these violent episodes are often motivated by admirable democratic ideas of popular power and autonomy. Kirkpatrick shows how, in this respect, they are not so unlike the much-admired adherents of nonviolent civil disobedience, yet she reveals how those who engage in violent disobedience use these admirable democratic principles as a justification for terrorism and killing.She uses a "bottom-up" analysis of events to explain how this transformation takes place, paying close attention to what members of these groups do and how they think about the relationship between citizens and the law. Uncivil Disobedience calls for a new vision of liberal democracy where the rule of the people and the rule of law are recognized as fundamental ideals, and where neither is triumphant or transcendent.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 227gAuthor: Jennet KirkpatrickGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Uncivil Disobedience
Title: Uncivil Disobedience
Subtitle: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
ISBN-10: 069113877X
EAN: 9780691138770
ISBN: 9780691138770
Release Date: 09/22/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Name: Uncivil Disobedience : Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Slavery, Discrimination & Race Relations, Violence in Society, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General, Political Freedom
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Jennet Kirkpatrick
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
