UID:
almafu_9959245490202883
Format:
1 online resource (339 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06613-0
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9786613066138
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0-226-10998-4
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-10996-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-10997-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.7208/9780226109985
