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26 - The Good, the Bland, and the Ugly

Volunteering, Civic Associations, and Participation in Politics

from IV - Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Sara Compion  and
Thomas Janoski
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

The value of volunteering and associational groups for social political life has long interested scholars studying modern democratic societies. Since Alexis de Tocqueville published his seminal work on Democracy in America in the 1830s (2001), much focus has been on the good that volunteering in civic associations does for fostering pro-social behavior and for building public participatory processes in democratic governments. A more recent and critical view asserts that the work of civic associations can also be socially corrosive, paternalistic, intolerant of outsiders, geared toward corporate self-interest, and actively antidemocratic. In addition, much volunteering in civic groups is shallow, menial, apolitical social activity that holds little, if any, transformative social potential.

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volunteeringcivic associationsparticipationdemocratic/ anti-democratic movements
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 681 - 714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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