Darcy K Leach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darcy K Leach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darcy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Leach |
| SIGNATURE | LEACH D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bradley University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prefigurative Politics
The term “prefigurative politics” refers to a political orientation based on the premise that the ends a social movement achieves are fundamentally shaped by the means it employs, and that movements should therefore do their best to choose means that embody or “prefigure” the kind of society they want to bring about. On one level, this commitment to means–ends consistency reflects what Weber called a “value‐rational” logic of action, in which act…
American Heathens
When Freedom Is Not an Endless Meeting
It is axiomatic among scholars of participatory democracy that consensus-based decision making is inefficient, yet no study has systematically assessed that claim. This article examines the efficiency of consensus decision making in 12 social movement groups from the German autonomous and nonviolence movements. Data were analyzed from 62 semistructured interviews regarding how long it took each group to make a typical decision and what types of d…
Clandestine Political Violence
Oligarchy, Iron Law of
Culture and the Structure of Tyrannylessness
The Occupy movement is famous for all kinds of things that it didn't invent. Practices like the general assembly, the people's microphone, the hand signals, and the tactic of occupation are a major
Prefigurative Politics
The term prefigurative politics refers to a political orientation based on the premise that the ends a social movement achieves are fundamentally shaped by the means it employs, and that movements should therefore do their best to choose means that embody or “prefigure” the kind of society they want to bring about. On one level, this commitment to means–ends consistency reflects what Weber called a “value‐rational” logic of action, in which actio…
Modern Free Society and its Nemesis
"An Elusive "We
Recent research suggests that ideology and collective identity are important factors shaping the behavior of movements committed to radically democratic self-governance and that a coherent ideology and clearly defined identity are necessary for movement success. Examining this hypothesis in the context of the Germany "autonomous" movement, this study finds that a contradiction in the movement's ideology around the meaning of autonomy has generate…
The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy Across Organizational Forms
The debate around Michels's 'iron law of oligarchy' over the question of whether organizations inevitably become oligarchic reaches back almost a century, but the concept of oligarchy has frequently been left underspecified, and the measures that have been employed are especially inadequate for analyzing nonbureaucratically structured organizations. A conceptual model is needed that delineates what does and does not constitute oligarchy and can b…
The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy Across Organizational Forms
The debate around Michels's 'iron law of oligarchy' over the question of whether organizations inevitably become oligarchic reaches back almost a century, but the concept of oligarchy has frequently been left underspecified, and the measures that have been employed are especially inadequate for analyzing nonbureaucratically structured organizations. A conceptual model is needed that delineates what does and does not constitute oligarchy and can b…
"An Elusive "We
Recent research suggests that ideology and collective identity are important factors shaping the behavior of movements committed to radically democratic self-governance and that a coherent ideology and clearly defined identity are necessary for movement success. Examining this hypothesis in the context of the Germany "autonomous" movement, this study finds that a contradiction in the movement's ideology around the meaning of autonomy has generate…
The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy Across Organizational Forms
The debate around Michels's 'iron law of oligarchy' over the question of whether organizations inevitably become oligarchic reaches back almost a century, but the concept of oligarchy has frequently been left underspecified, and the measures that have been employed are especially inadequate for analyzing nonbureaucratically structured organizations. A conceptual model is needed that delineates what does and does not constitute oligarchy and can b…
Modern Free Society and its Nemesis
"An Elusive "We
Recent research suggests that ideology and collective identity are important factors shaping the behavior of movements committed to radically democratic self-governance and that a coherent ideology and clearly defined identity are necessary for movement success. Examining this hypothesis in the context of the Germany "autonomous" movement, this study finds that a contradiction in the movement's ideology around the meaning of autonomy has generate…
Culture and the Structure of Tyrannylessness
The Occupy movement is famous for all kinds of things that it didn't invent. Practices like the general assembly, the people's microphone, the hand signals, and the tactic of occupation are a major
Prefigurative Politics
The term prefigurative politics refers to a political orientation based on the premise that the ends a social movement achieves are fundamentally shaped by the means it employs, and that movements should therefore do their best to choose means that embody or “prefigure” the kind of society they want to bring about. On one level, this commitment to means–ends consistency reflects what Weber called a “value‐rational” logic of action, in which actio…
Oligarchy, Iron Law of
When Freedom Is Not an Endless Meeting
It is axiomatic among scholars of participatory democracy that consensus-based decision making is inefficient, yet no study has systematically assessed that claim. This article examines the efficiency of consensus decision making in 12 social movement groups from the German autonomous and nonviolence movements. Data were analyzed from 62 semistructured interviews regarding how long it took each group to make a typical decision and what types of d…
Clandestine Political Violence
American Heathens
Prefigurative Politics
The term “prefigurative politics” refers to a political orientation based on the premise that the ends a social movement achieves are fundamentally shaped by the means it employs, and that movements should therefore do their best to choose means that embody or “prefigure” the kind of society they want to bring about. On one level, this commitment to means–ends consistency reflects what Weber called a “value‐rational” logic of action, in which act…
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