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Voluntary Associations (Hardcover)
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A vast and complicated array of subject matter is subjected to
analysis, comment, and speculation by fifteen contributors
representing three separate but contiguous disciplines. Their
approaches are as various as one would expect. One is concerned
with the bonds that hold associations together, and another with
the tendency for the private to become public. One sees
associations as interferences with democratic political processes,
while another is more impressed by their positive values. Still
another shows that the way in which they operate in the political
process depends not only on the kind of association but also upon
the political context within which they operate. Pennock and
Chapman say that the theorist's job is to speculate and to
interpret the facts as he sees them. It is also the theorist's job
to suggest hypotheses for testing: to point to lines of inquiry
that should be pursued. One cannot read the essays in this volume,
without having his eyes opened--or opened wider--both to the
paucity of information about the political features of voluntary
associations and to the wide variety of aspects from which the
subject needs to be approached. The kinds of questions that need to
be examined can be grouped in categories. The first focuses on the
individual: What kinds of memberships does he have? Even more, what
is the effect upon him of membership in each kind of association?
The second examines internal composition and workings of
organizations. The third focuses on the state as a whole and the
effect of organized groups upon it, the political processes of the
associational structure of the society, and modes of behavior of
these associations. Organized groups play an intermediate role in
the polity. At the same time, the state, and those charged at any
particular time with the performance of its functions, must look
primarily to new associations within it to secure compliance with
its law and for guidance in shaping those laws.
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