Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal
and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers,
parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential
associations, literary societies, national and international
charities, and service organizations of seemingly all sorts. Social
scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether
decreasing proportions of Americans over the past several decades
have been joining secondary associations, but no one disputes that
freedom of association remains a fundamental personal and political
value in the United States. "Nothing," Alexis de Tocqueville
argued, "deserves more attention." Yet the value and limits of free
association in the United States have not received the attention
they deserve. Why is freedom of association valuable for the lives
of individuals? What does it contribute to the life of a liberal
democracy? This volume explores the individual and civic values of
associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral
and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom.
Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association
by Amy Gutmann, the first part of this timely volume includes
essays on individual rights of association by George Kateb, Michael
Walzer, Kent Greenawalt, and Nancy Rosenblum, and the second part
includes essays on civic values of association by Will Kymlicka,
Yael Tamir, Daniel A. Bell, Sam Fleischacker, Alan Ryan, and Stuart
White.
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