Politics and Partnerships

by Clemens, Elisabeth S.

• ISBN13: 9780226109978
• ISBN10: 0226109976
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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 Partnershipsis 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.

Author Biography

Elisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Doug Guthrie is professor of sociology at New York University with a joint appointment in the Department of Management and Organization at the Stern School of Business.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Politics and Partnerships	p. 1
Of, By, and Instead of Politics
Civil Society and American Nationalism, 1776-1865	p. 29
Steering the State: Government, Nonprofits, and the Making of Labor Knowledge in the New Era	p. 54
In the Shadow of the New Deal: Reconfiguring the Roles of Government and Charity, 1928-1940	p. 79
Nonprofits in a World of Markets
Bringing the Market Back In: Philanthropic Activism and Conservative Reform	p. 121
Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students	p. 151
Corporate Philanthropy in the United States: What Causes Do Corporations Back?	p. 183
Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Recombinations of Markets, States, and Nonprofit Organizing
Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors	p. 209
Nonprofits and the Reconstruction of Urban Governance: Housing Production and Community Development in Cleveland, 1975-2005	p. 237
Evangelical Megachurches and the Christianization of Civil Society: An Ethnographic Case Study	p. 269
Resolviendo: How September 11 Tested and Transformed a New York City Mexican Immigrant Organization	p. 297
List of Contributors	p. 327
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