Private Groups and Public Life: Social Participation, Voluntary Associations and Political Involvement in Representative Democracies (European Political Science Series)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 8
FIGURES......Page 11
TABLES......Page 12
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 15
PREFACE......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 19
Interest groups and intermediary organizations......Page 21
Voluntary associations......Page 23
The perspectives combined......Page 25
Context and contacts......Page 27
Participation breeds participation......Page 29
PLAN OF THE BOOK......Page 33
NOTES......Page 35
REFERENCES......Page 37
VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY......Page 43
MEMBERSHIP OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS......Page 44
INSIDE THE VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION......Page 47
Social activity......Page 48
Politicization......Page 49
Leadership......Page 50
Responsiveness......Page 53
VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION......Page 56
THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF GROUPS......Page 61
NOTES......Page 63
REFERENCES......Page 64
INTRODUCTION......Page 66
SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY......Page 67
The roles and functions of organizations......Page 70
Changing social relations......Page 72
Increase in social reflexivity......Page 73
THE TOCQUEVILLEAN THESIS REVISITED......Page 74
CONCLUSION......Page 78
NOTES......Page 79
REFERENCES......Page 80
INTRODUCTION......Page 83
SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES: THE MODEL OF ‘PILLARIZATION’......Page 84
POLITICAL PARTIES REPRESENTING ‘OLD’ AND ‘NEW' CLEAVAGES......Page 87
MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND STABLE VOTING BEHAVIOUR......Page 89
Concepts and measures......Page 90
Memberships, generations and stable voting......Page 91
Explaining stable voting......Page 94
CONCLUSION......Page 95
NOTES......Page 97
REFERENCE......Page 98
INTRODUCTION......Page 101
WOMEN, CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY......Page 102
Organizational types come and go......Page 104
The changing gender composition of the voluntary society......Page 106
Are young women more like men?......Page 109
Extinct versus surviving organizations......Page 113
Are the new organizations different?......Page 116
CONCLUSION......Page 119
NOTES......Page 121
REFERENCES......Page 123
INCREASED NUMBERS OF GROUPS AND PARTICIPANTS......Page 126
ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION? CADRE GROUP TO PROTEST BUSINESS......Page 127
WHO PARTICIPATES IN ‘MAIL-ORDER’ GROUPS? THE ROLE OF MARKETING......Page 130
The decay of parties and the growth of groups......Page 133
Supporters and participatory democracy......Page 135
CONCLUSION: A CONTINUING DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT?......Page 138
NOTES......Page 140
REFERENCES......Page 142
INTRODUCTION......Page 145
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 146
MODELLING THE DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 151
MEASURING THE DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 153
ESTIMATING THE MODEL......Page 157
CONCLUSION......Page 160
NOTES......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 162
INTRODUCTION......Page 164
THE SYSTEM UNDER ATTACK......Page 165
THE COUNCIL MEMBER......Page 167
THE STATE’S INTERESTS......Page 171
CONCLUSION......Page 176
NOTES......Page 178
REFERENCES......Page 179
INTRODUCTION......Page 183
DATA AND INDICATORS......Page 185
The social structure of associative participation......Page 187
The social structure of political participation......Page 189
ASSOCIATIVE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 191
EXPLAINING ASSOCIATIVE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 194
NEIGHBOURHOOD AND AREA......Page 198
NOTES......Page 200
REFERENCES......Page 201
INTRODUCTION......Page 204
THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOCAL POLITICS......Page 205
ZWOLLE AND ITS INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS......Page 207
ACCESS TO THE POLITICAL SYSTEM......Page 213
CONCLUSION......Page 215
NOTES......Page 216
REFERENCES......Page 217
INTRODUCTION......Page 219
CONCEPTUALIZING ORGANIZING CAPACITY......Page 220
Modernization and involvement: the general framework......Page 221
Human capital potential......Page 224
Communication capacity......Page 225
Mobilization potential......Page 226
Testing the hypotheses......Page 227
Inequality and modernity......Page 233
Inequality in organizing capacity......Page 234
CONCLUSION......Page 237
NOTES......Page 238
REFERENCES......Page 239
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 242
DATA AND INDICATORS......Page 244
INTRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PATTERNS IN PARTICIPATION......Page 246
PROTEST AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 249
POLITICAL CULTURE AND ATTITUDINAL CORRELATES OF PARTICIPATION......Page 252
CONCLUSION......Page 256
NOTES......Page 258
REFERENCES......Page 260
INDEX......Page 262