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Uncivil disobedience: studies in violence and democratic politics
"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."--Jacket
Uncivil disobedience: studies in violence and democratic politics
"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."--Jacket
The Fantasy of Exit: Campaign Use and Abuse of Exit in the UK's 2016 Brexit Debate
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 177-194
ISSN: 1469-9931
Literary Devices: Teaching Social Contract Theory with A Short Story
In: Journal of political science education, Band 17, Heft sup1, S. 554-566
ISSN: 1551-2177
Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. 240p. $29.00 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 933-935
ISSN: 1541-0986
Fairness has a face: neutrality and descriptive representation on courts
In: Politics, Groups, and Identities, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 803-811
ISSN: 2156-5511
Book Review: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil, by Candice Delmas
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 528-533
ISSN: 1552-7476
Resistant exit
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 135-157
ISSN: 1476-9336
Jonathan McKenzie. The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015. Pp. 214. $75.00
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 321-324
ISSN: 2161-1599
Walking Away with Thoreau: The Pleasures and Risks of Exit
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 446-466
ISSN: 2161-1599
Exits, Voices and Social Investment: Citizens' Reaction to Public Services. By Keith Dowding and Peter John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 208p. $103.00
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 941-942
ISSN: 1541-0986
Exit out of Athens? Migration and Obligation in Plato's Crito
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 356-379
ISSN: 1552-7476
A prevailing theme of the scholarship on Plato's Crito has been civil disobedience, with many scholars agreeing that the Athenian Laws do not demand a slavish, authoritarian kind of obedience. While this focus on civil disobedience has yielded consensus, it has left another issue in the text relatively unexplored—that is, the challenges and attractions of leaving one's homeland or of "exit." Reading for exit reveals two fundamental, yet contradictory, desires in the Crito: a yearning to escape the injustice of the homeland for self-preservation and freedom (voiced by Crito) and a deep-seated need to honor one's obligations and attachments to the homeland (voiced by the Laws). By exposing the conflicted nature of leaving one's native land, Plato's Crito enriches an understanding of the meaning and consequences of an exit for the individual.
Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracyby Martha A. Ackelsberg: (2010). New York: Routledge, 288 pp., $41.95, ISBN 978-0415935197
In: Journal of women, politics & policy, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 88-90
ISSN: 1554-4788