Synopses & Reviews
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 Partnerships is 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 governmentand#8217;s retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.
About the Author
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
1 Introduction: Politics and Partnerships
Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie
Part Iand#160; Of, By, and Instead of Politics
2 Civil Society and American Nationalism, 1776and#8211;1865
Johann N. Neem
3 Steering the State: Government, Nonprofits, and the Making of Labor Knowledge in the New Era
Mark Hendrickson
4 In the Shadow of the New Deal: Reconfiguring the Roles of Government and Charity, 1928and#8211;1940
Elisabeth S. Clemens
Part IIand#160; Nonprofits in a World of Markets
5 Bringing the Market Back In: Philanthropic Activism and Conservative Reform
Alice Oand#8217;Connor
6 Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students
James A. Evans
7 Corporate Philanthropy in the United States: What Causes Do Corporations Back?
Doug Guthrie
Part IIIand#160; Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Recombinations of Markets, States, and Nonprofit Organizing
8 Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors
Nicole P. Marwell
9 Nonprofits and the Reconstruction of Urban Governance: Housing Production and Community Development in Cleveland, 1975and#8211;2005
Michael McQuarrie
10 Evangelical Megachurches and the Christianization of Civil Society: An Ethnographic Case Study
Omri Elisha
11 Resolviendo: How September 11 Tested and Transformed a New York City Mexican Immigrant Organization
Alyshia Gand#225;lvez
List of Contributors
Index