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A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
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We challenge the widely held view that classic American voluntary groups were tiny, local, and disconnected from government. Using newly collected data to develop a theoretically framed account, we show that membership associations emerged early in U.S. history and converged toward the institutional form of the representatively governed federation. This form enabled leaders and members to spread interconnected groups across an expanding nation. At the height of local proliferation, most voluntary groups were part of regional or national federations that mirrored the structure of U.S. government. Institutionalist theories suggest reasons for this parallelism, which belies the rigid dichotomy between state and civil society that informs much current discussion of civic engagement in the United States and elsewhere.
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“Because of the way they are organized, the purposes for which they are organized, and the ways they exercise influence, civic associations play a major role not only in creating civic infrastructure but in incubating social movements and acting as the dominant organizational form into which movements evolve.”
From Leadership, Membership, and Voice: Civic Associations That Work (2010) · cites this paper as Skocpol, Ganz, and Munson (2000)
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“of the 46 civic associations that encompassed 1% or more of the U.S. population between 1776 and 1955, 17 of them incubated or institutionalized social movements.”
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“In addition, the Sierra Club is an important kind of civic association through its federated organizational form.”
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- Authors
- Skocpol, T., Ganz, M., & Munson, Z.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- American Political Science Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2000-09-01
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 527-546
- ISSN
- 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5943
- OpenAlex
- W2110491165
- Cited by
- 491
- References
- 114
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 75.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Keywords
- civil society organizations, civic voluntarism, citizen participation, federation, institutional origins, civil society, state and civil society, civic organizations, institutionalism, American history, national federations
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