"In the Interest of Others" develops a new theory of
organizational leadership and governance to explain why some
organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not
benefit their members directly. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi
document eighty years of such activism by the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union in the United States and the
Waterside Workers Federation in Australia. They systematically
compare the ILWU and WWF to the Teamsters and the International
Longshoremen's Association, two American transport industry labor
unions that actively discouraged the pursuit of political causes
unrelated to their own economic interests.
Drawing on a wealth of original data, Ahlquist and Levi show how
activist organizations can profoundly transform the views of
members about their political efficacy and the collective actions
they are willing to contemplate. They find that leaders who ask for
support of projects without obvious material benefits must first
demonstrate their ability to deliver the goods and services members
expect. These leaders must also build governance institutions that
coordinate expectations about their objectives and the behavior of
members.
"In the Interest of Others" reveals how activist labor unions
expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend
the private interests of individual members. Ahlquist and Levi then
extend this logic to other membership organizations, including
religious groups, political parties, and the state itself.
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