A book about the problems experienced when trying to keep democracy afloat in an organization.

Union Democracy: The Inside Politics of the International Typographical Union

Seymour Martin Lipset

james, Coleman

Martin Trow

Business & Money

Free Press

8" x 5.5"; 162 pages; Compilation of articles on the subject by various authors.

The American labor movement (Interpretations of American history)

Politics & Social Sciences

David Brody

Gerald N. Grob

Ray Marshall

Robert Christie

Michael Rogin

Politics & Government

Harper&Row

Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics (Classic Reprint)

Anthropology

Forgotten Books

“One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time. . . .An impressive and very challenging book.” ―Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first “new nation.” Two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset’s attention here: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. Mr. Lipset compares early America with today’s emerging nations to discover problems common to them as new nations. He then concentrates on American history in later periods, selecting for discussion as critical cases religious institutions and trade unions. Finally he compares political development in several modern industrialized democracies, including the United States.

The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective

History

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Explores the failure of the socialist movement in the US. Draws on contrasts with other industrialized countries and extensive comparisons within the US at the state and city level to promote understanding of how factors such as American values, political structure, and the split between the Socialist Party and mainstream unions combined to seal socialism's fate. Lipset teaches public policy at George Mason University; Marks is professor of political science and founding director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States

Gary Marks

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of unions, been joining them in smaller numbers than ever before? This book answers that question by comparing the American experience with that of Canada, where approval for unions is significantly lower than in the United States, but where since the mid-1960s workers have joined organized labor to a much greater extent. Given that the two countries are outwardly so similar, what explains this paradox? This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of both countries using, among other things, a detailed survey conducted in the United States and Canada by the Ipsos-Reid polling group.
The authors explain that the relative reluctance of employees in the United States to join unions, compared with those in Canada, is rooted less in their attitudes toward unions than in the former country's deep-seated tradition of individualism and laissez-faire economic values. Canada has a more statist, social democratic tradition, which is in turn attributable to its Tory and European conservative lineage. Canadian values are therefore more supportive of unionism, making unions more powerful and thus, paradoxically, lowering public approval of unions. Public approval is higher in the United States, where unions exert less of an influence over politics and the economy.

The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, But Join Much Less

Noah Meltz

Rafael Gomez

Ivan Katchanovski

Economics

ILR PRESS

Noah M. Meltz

"The most important single volume on the sociology of voting yet to appear in the United States or anywhere else."--Political Science Quarterly.
"Lipset has once again demonstrated his preeminence in the fields of both sociology and political science."--Commentary.

Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, Expanded Edition

Social Sciences

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Affirmative Action Revisited (Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science)

Charles V. Hamilton

Glenn C. Loury

Linda Chavez

William L. Taylor

Susan M. Liss

William Bradford Taylor

Hugh Davis Graham

Dave M. O'Neill

George R. LaNoue

Consensus and Conflict

The first of two volumes of Seymour Martin Lipsit's major papers deals with social and political conflict and, to a lesser extent, the way in which value systems and political institutions maintain order and consensus.  Together these papers expound Lipset's thesis that, although all complex societies are characterized by a high degree of internal tension and conflict, consensual institutions and values are necessary conditions for their persistence.

Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology

Routledge

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