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1. UNION DEMOCRACY: AN EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK.

Author

Martin, Roderick

Subjects
*LABOR union democracy, *LEADERSHIP, *EXECUTIVES, *POLITICAL culture, *DEMOCRACY, *AUTHORITY
Abstract

Two main definitions of democracy have been used in the analysis of union politics; either as leadership responsiveness to membership opinion, or as the institutionalization of opposition. This paper rejects both definitions, instead defining democracy as the survival of faction. The survival of faction is explained by the pressures which prevent union Executives from destroying it. These pressures fall into twelve categories: political culture; government attitudes and behaviour; membership distribution; industrial setting; economic environment; technology; source of union bargaining power; membership characteristics; membership beliefs; opposition expertise and resources; leadership beliefs; and union structure. The contrasting political histories of the A.E.U. and the N.U.R. are explained by contrasting patterns of constraints. The paper concludes with a formal statement of the characteristics associated with union democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1968
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2. Oh, Stop That, Freda!

Author

Olivier, Warner

Subjects
*WOMEN newspaper editors, *DEMOCRACY, FOREIGN relations of the United States
Abstract

The article features liberal Freda Kirchwey, editor and publisher of the newspaper "The Nation." On the occasion of her 25th anniversary with the paper, she received a tribute for her campaign for democracy and global peace. She faced controversies about her contract marriage to economist Evans Clark in 1915. The newspaper has urged the U.S. to strictly attend to its own business and isolate itself from attending foreign affairs.

Published
1946

3. A Conservative's Estimate of FDR.

Author

Schlesinger Jr., Arthur

Subjects
*LEADERSHIP, *DEMOCRACY, *POLITICAL doctrines, *POLITICAL systems
Abstract

The article presents information on the book "The Roosevelt Leadership, 19331945," by E.E. Robinson. It is an odd book. It consists, in the main, of a somewhat routine and superficial history of the Roosevelt administration, Combined with this history are some astute observations on Roosevelt as a personality and as a leader and a series of general reflections on the significance of the New Deal-reflections apparently deriving from a dimly-focussed theory of the paper relationship between the people and the state in a democracy.

Published
1955