{"product_id":"the-origins-of-collective-decision-making-9781608468041","title":"The Origins Of Collective Decision Making","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on his highly original and always insightful earlier works on collective activity, in Origins of Collective Decision Making Andy Blunden turns his attention to the question of how groups make decisions. Examining three paradigms - Counsel, Majority, and Consensus based methods - Blunden discovers that each has unique ethical foundations, deeply rooted in the historical experiences of specific struggles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices… [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly ‘post-truth politics’, this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions.”  —Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books“[In Origins of Collective Decision Making] Andy Blunden claims to be opening a new field, asking questions that have not been asked before…The dispute between supporters of Majority and Consensus is at bottom an ethical one, he argues, and the ethical problem has to be solved before practical solutions to the problem of decision making can be found, solutions in which both Majority and Consensus may have a place. This book, by illuminating the history, is intended as a resource for that purpose.”  —Jeremy Dixon, Social Movement Studies  \"The result is a highly original, wide-ranging and continuously challenging dialogue between the sources and their implications.\" —Stuart Macintyre (University of Melbourne), in Labour History, no. 112 (May 2017)\u003cbr\u003e“In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices… [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly ‘post-truth politics’, this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions.”  —Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE  INTRODUCTION Collective Decision Making Realist Historical Investigation  PART 1. MAJORITY 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  PART 2. CONSENSUS English Revolution and the Quakers The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania New England Town Meetings The Peace and Civil Rights Movements Myles Horton and the 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  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","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359720833367,"sku":"9781608468041","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608468041.jpg?v=1754125512","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origins-of-collective-decision-making-9781608468041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}