Consensus and dissent
Author: International Political Science Association. World Congress
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Published: 1967
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Melvin I. Urofsky
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 110187063X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of Books In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. The Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution, acknowledged that the Court’s majority opinions have not always been right, and initiated a critical discourse about what a particular decision should mean before fashioning subsequent decisions—largely through the power of dissent. Urofsky shows how the practice grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) during which Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion upheld slavery and ending with the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems less and less possible. Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so.
Author: Anne Storch
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-03-10
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9027265925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these discussions, led among linguists, anthropologists, and Egyptologists, and leading to a collection of essays that provide studies that transcend previously considered approaches. Its contributions are in particular interested in understanding how the attitude of the individual towards societal processes and strategies of norming is negotiated emotionally, and how individual interests and attitudes can be articulated. Discourses on public spaces are in the focus, in order to analyse those strategies that are employed to articulate dissent (for example, in the sense of face-threatening acts). This raises a number of questions on the spatial and public situatedness of emotions and language: How is the public space dealt with and reflected in language as property, heritage, and as a part of ascribed identities? Which role do emotions play in this space? How is emotion employed there as part of place making in relation to identity constructions? What is the connection between emotion, performance and emblematic spaces and places? Which opportunities of the violation of norms and transgression do such public spaces offer to actors and speakers? These questions intend to address the communicative representation of core cultural processes and concepts.
Author: Basudeb Chattopadhyay
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Most Of The Recent Studies On Protest In Historical Perspective, It Is Often Forgotten That Protect Has Many Faces. The Historians Contributing To This Volume Are: Basudeb Chattopadhyay, Arun Bandopadhyay, Parimal Ghosh, Rajat Kanta Ray, Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Hari S. Vasudevan, Suranjan Das And Bhaskar, Chakraborty. Without Dust Jacket.
Author: Charlan Nemeth
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0465096301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not feared We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making. From Twelve Angry Men to Edward Snowden, lone objectors who make people question their assumptions bring groups far closer to truth--regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Essential reading for anyone who works in groups, In Defense of Troublemakers will radically change the way you think, listen, and make decisions.