| 书目名称 | Modernizing Democracy |
| 副标题 | Associations and Ass |
| 编辑 | Matthias Freise,Thorsten Hallmann |
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| 概述 | Addresses a relevant current topic not only of third sector research, but of social science.In general involves an international authorship including many of the distinguished experts and pioneers of |
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| 描述 | Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important providers of welfare services and play an important role between the individual and political spheres. In recent years the environment of associations and associating has changed dramatically. Individualization, commercialization and globalization are challenging both democracy and the capability of associations to fulfill the functions attributed to them by social sciences. This change provides the central question of the volume: Is being part of an organization or association becoming an outdated model? And do associations still have the capacity of modernizing societies or are they just outdated remnants of post-democracy? The contributions to Modernizing Democracy will be organized into: Studying Association and Associating in the 21st Century, Associating in Times of Post-Democracy and Associations and the Challenge of Capitalist Development. The book will be attractive to third sector researchers as well as a bro |
| 出版日期 | Book 2014 |
| 关键词 | civil society; elements of democracy; organizations of the third sector; privatization of public servic |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0485-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-5530-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4939-0485-3 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 |
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