Freedom of Association edited by Amy Gutmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutmann, Amy, ed.

Series:

The University Center for Human Values Series ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Associacions, institucions, etc--Estats Units d'America.

Associacions, institucions, etc.

Llibertat d'associació--Estats Units d'America.

Llibertat d'associació.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 382 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly all sorts. Social scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether decreasing proportions of Americans over the past several decades have been joining secondary associations, but no one disputes that freedom of association remains a fundamental personal and political value in the United States. "Nothing," Alexis de Tocqueville argued, "deserves more attention." Yet the value and limits of free association in the United States have not received the attention they deserve. Why is freedom of association valuable for the lives of individuals? What does it contribute to the life of a liberal democracy? This volume explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association by Amy Gutmann, the first part of this timely volume includes essays on individual rights of association by George Kateb, Michael Walzer, Kent Greenawalt, and Nancy Rosenblum, and the second part includes essays on civic values of association by Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, Daniel A. Bell, Sam Fleischacker, Alan Ryan, and Stuart White.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

CHAPTER ONE Freedom of Association: An Introductory Essay

PART I: INDIVIDUAL VALUES OF ASSOCIATION

CHAPTER TWO The Value of Association

CHAPTER THREE On Involuntary Association

CHAPTER FOUR Compelled Association: Public Standing, Self-Respect, and the Dynamic of Exclusion

CHAPTER FIVE Freedom of Association and Religious Association

CHAPTER SIX Rights, Reasons, and Freedom of Association

PART II: CIVIC VALUES OF ASSOCIATION

CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Associations and Democratic Citizenship

CHAPTER EIGHT Revisiting the Civic Sphere

CHAPTER NINE Civil Society versus Civic Virtue

CHAPTER TEN Insignificant Communities

CHAPTER ELEVEN The City as a Site for Free Association

CHAPTER TWELVE Trade Unionism in a Liberal State

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691057590

0691057591

OCLC:

1149222399