Politics and Partnerships

The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

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ID20009520
AuthorsElisabeth S Clemens (0000-0003-2390-3184), Doug Guthrie (0000-0001-5077-1696)
Year2011
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitics and Partnerships (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226109985.001.0001
OpenAlexW626336956
Open LibraryOL35893557M
ISBN9780226109985
LanguageEN
Citations received20

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times of crisis, and the voluntary efforts of ordinary citizens are now seen as a necessary supplement to government intervention. But despite the ubiquity of the idea of volunteerism in public policy debates, analysis of its role in American governance has been fragmented. Bringing together a diverse set of disciplinary approaches, Politics and Partnerships is a thorough examination of the place of voluntary associations in political history and an astute investigation into contemporary experiments in reshaping that role. The essays here reveal the key role nonprofits have played in the evolution of both the workplace and welfare and illuminate the way the government's retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations

Corporate governance · Discipline · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Intervention (counseling) · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Welfare · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Public Administration · Charities · Civil society · Nonprofit organizations · united states · Voluntarism

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