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Politics and Partnerships
The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present
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2011
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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 that government’s retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.
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 that government’s retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.
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Elisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Doug Guthrie is professor of sociology at New York University with a joint appointment in the Department of Management and Organization at the Stern School of Business.
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“This is an important, agenda-setting volume that, across its varied chapters, demonstrates that nonprofits—and nonprofit scholarship—need to be centered in the study of American political development. From the empirically rigorous essays collected here, it becomes clear that explicit and implicit partnerships between the government and nonprofits have existed long before now and that understanding contemporary politics and policy requires identifying and analyzing the points of intersection between nonprofit, corporate, and governmental sectors. Through its theoretical ambition, the range of historical and contemporary cases it covers, and the quality of its scholarship, Politics and Partnerships sets a new standard in this vital area.”
— Debra Minkoff, Barnard College, Columbia University“A fantastic collection of essays—one of the few edited volumes I have seen where the whole is much greater than the sum of the individual parts. One of the book’s strengths is its interdisciplinary nature: the editors have assembled a unique set of perspectives, approaches, and studies at different historical periods.”--Christopher Marquis, Harvard Business School
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter One. Introduction: Politics and Partnerships
1 - Part I. Of, By, and Instead of Politics
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Chapter Two. Civil Society and American Nationalism, 1776–1865
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Chapter Three. Steering the State: Government, Nonprofits, and the Making of Labor Knowledge in the New Era
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Chapter Four. In the Shadow of the New Deal: Reconfi guring the Roles of Government and Charity, 1928–1940
79 - Part II. Nonprofits in a World of Markets
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Chapter Five. Bringing the Market Back In: Philanthropic Activism and Conservative Reform
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Chapter Six. Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students
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Chapter Seven. Corporate Philanthropy in the United States: What Causes Do Corporations Back?
183 - Part III. Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Recombinations of Markets, States, and Nonprofi t Organizing
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Chapter Eight. Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors
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Chapter Nine. Nonprofits and the Reconstruction of Urban Governance: Housing Production and Community Development in Cleveland, 1975–2005
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Chapter Ten. Evangelical Megachurches and the Christianization of Civil Society: An Ethnographic Case Study
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Chapter Eleven. Resolviendo: How September 11 Tested and Transformed a New York City Mexican Immigrant Organization
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9780226109985
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Keywords for this book
community; associations; social groups; politics; nonprofits; charity; voluntarism; volunteers; nationalism; labor; government; new deal; philanthropic activism; reform; corporate philanthropy; corporations; urban governance; housing; esolviendo; religion; outreach; megachurches; organizations; nonfiction; history; political science; welfare state
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
