Politics and partnerships : the role of voluntary associations in America's political past and present / edited by Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clemens, Elisabeth Stephanie, 1958-

Guthrie, Doug, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voluntarism--Political aspects--United States.

Voluntarism.

Voluntarism--United States--History.

Civil society--United States.

Civil society.

Charities--Political aspects--United States.

Charities.

Nonprofit organizations--Political activity--United States.

Nonprofit organizations.

Religion and civil society--United States.

Religion and civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: politics and partnerships / Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie

Of, by, and instead of politics

Civil society and American nationalism, 1776-1865 / Johann N. Neem

Steering the state: government, nonprofits, and the making of labor knowledge in the new era / Mark Hendrickson

In the shadow of the New Deal: reconfiguring the roles of government and charity, 1928-1940 / Elisabeth S. Clemens

Nonprofits in a world of markets

Bringing the market back in: philanthropic activism and conservative reform / Alice O'Connor

Nonprofit research institutes: from companies without products to universities without students / James A. Evans

Corporate philanthropy in the United States: what causes do corporations back? / Doug Guthrie

Boundary crossing: contemporary recombinations of markets, states, and nonprofit organizing

Privatizing the welfare state: nonprofit community-based organizations as political actors / Nicole P. Marwell

Nonprofits and the reconstruction of urban governance: housing production and community development in Cleveland, 1975-2005 / Michael McQuarrie

Evangelical megachurches and the christianization of civil society: an ethnographic case study / Omri Elisha

Resolviendo: how September 11 tested and transformed a New York City Mexican immigrant organization / Alyshia Galvez.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613066138

9781283066136

1283066130

9780226109985

0226109984

OCLC:

710995095