Challenging Authority How Ordinary People Change America Summary

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Piven claims that the effectiveness of voting and elections depends on the people and their willingness to use their power to rise up against the rules that govern their daily lives. This is said in the book “Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America” by Frances Fox Piven, Piven says “This book argues that ordinary people exercise power in American politics mainly at those extraordinary moments when they rise up in anger and hope, defy the rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives, and, by doing so, disrupt the workings of the institutions in which they are enmeshed.” Piven believes that the effectiveness of voting relies on people's willingness to stand up and defy the rules and that is shown to be true throughout history