Democracy and Association
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Accountability
Activism
Advocacy
Advocacy group
Anomie
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Citizenship
Civic virtue
Civil society
Collective action
Collective security
Communitarianism
Consideration
Corporatism
Criticism
Deliberation
Democracy
Distributive justice
Economic Network
Economic power
Economics
Employment
Environmental movement
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Externality
Freedom of association
Georgetown University
Governance
Government
Hannah Arendt
Income
Income Support
Institution
Legislature
Legitimacy (political)
Liberal democracy
Modernity
Multiculturalism
Nation state
Negotiation
New social movements
Non-governmental organization
Nonprofit organization
Opportunism
Political party
Political philosophy
Politics
Postmodernism
Professional association
Public Agenda
Public good
Public sphere
Racism
Regulation
Self-governance
Social capital
Social club
Social integration
Social organization
Social relation
Social reproduction
Social science
Society
Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity (Catholicism)
Suggestion
Tax
Trade union
Trade-off
Voluntary association
Voting
Welfare
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- ISBN 9780691050775
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tocqueville's view that a virtuous and viable democracy depends on robust associational life has become a cornerstone of contemporary democratic theory. Democratic theorists generally agree that issue networks, recreational associations, support circles, religious groups, unions, advocacy groups, and myriad other kinds of associations enhance democracy by cultivating citizenship, promoting public deliberation, providing voice and representation, and enabling varied forms of governance. Yet there has been little work to show how and why different kinds of association have different effects on democracy--many supportive but others minimal or even destructive. This book offers the first systematic assessment of what associations do and don't do for democracy. Mark Warren explains how and when associational life expands the domain, inclusiveness, and authenticity of democracy. He looks at which associations are most likely to foster individuals' capacities for democratic citizenship, provoke political debate, open existing institutions, guide market activities, or bring democratic decision-making to new venues.
Throughout, Warren also considers the trade-offs involved, noting, for example, that organizational solidarity can dampen internal dissent and deliberation even as it enhances public deliberation. Blending political and social theory with an eye to social science, Democracy and Association will draw social scientists with interests in democracy, political philosophers, students of public policy, as well as the many activists who fortify the varied landscape we call civil society. As an original analysis of which associational soils yield vigorous democracies, the book will have a major impact on democratic theory and empirical research.
Mark E. Warren is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University and has written widely on democracy and civil society. He is author of Nietzsche and Political Thought and editor of Democracy and Trust.
