Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W577821967> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 50 of
50
with 100 items per page.
- W577821967 endingPage "2882" @default.
- W577821967 startingPage "45" @default.
- W577821967 abstract "Political actors are a diverse lot, animated and engaged by the prospect of change. Operating inside and outside the government, they are out to instigate change or inhibit it, to promote or deflect it, to channel or absorb it. Their interactions keep the American polity in a perpetual state of development, rendering it always to some degree unsettled. In the past, the study of American political development has treated political institutions and ideas as disembodied subjects. In Formative Acts, leading scholars in the field seek to refocus the debate on the political agency of people, analyzing various modes of action and various sites of interaction with an eye to their transformative potential.Seventeen essays illuminate critical junctures in American political development--from the social movements for women's suffrage, civil rights, and workers' rights, to Reconstruction, to the regulation of prescription drugs--as vantage points from which to examine how change is enacted. Contributors question not simply how political actors behave but also how and to what extent their actions change the American polity itself.At the same time, the transformative act is presented as larger than any one actor or group of actors; often the act of transformation involves many actors and a panoply of motives. Three concepts claim center stage: political entrepreneurship--especially as it directs attention to ambiguity and malleability in the rules of action found in any complex institutional setting; political leadership--specifically the conundrum of democratic leadership; and political agency--particularly the strongly voluntaristic construction of that concept found within American political culture. The authors focus on each of these categories to link the study of political action more effectively to our understanding of the formation and reformation of American government and politics." @default.
- W577821967 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W577821967 date "2008-01-01" @default.
- W577821967 modified "2023-09-26" @default.
- W577821967 title "Formative acts: American politics in the making" @default.
- W577821967 doi "https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-2882" @default.
- W577821967 hasPublicationYear "2008" @default.
- W577821967 type Work @default.
- W577821967 sameAs 577821967 @default.
- W577821967 citedByCount "9" @default.
- W577821967 countsByYear W5778219672013 @default.
- W577821967 countsByYear W5778219672014 @default.
- W577821967 countsByYear W5778219672015 @default.
- W577821967 countsByYear W5778219672017 @default.
- W577821967 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C19417346 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C42525527 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
- W577821967 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C144024400 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C17744445 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C19417346 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C199539241 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C42525527 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C94625758 @default.
- W577821967 hasConceptScore W577821967C95457728 @default.
- W577821967 hasIssue "05" @default.
- W577821967 hasLocation W5778219671 @default.
- W577821967 hasOpenAccess W577821967 @default.
- W577821967 hasPrimaryLocation W5778219671 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2010653293 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2086998054 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2102572942 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2154080075 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2322233747 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2323558005 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2330124732 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2539326105 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W577821967 hasRelatedWork W4231938959 @default.
- W577821967 hasVolume "45" @default.
- W577821967 isParatext "false" @default.
- W577821967 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W577821967 magId "577821967" @default.
- W577821967 workType "article" @default.