Grassroots AssociationsGrassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice. |
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... Communist , antigovernment ideology for paramilitary militias ( Karl , 1995 ) , and so on . Some GA or supralocal association ideologies are misleading to nonmem- bers who might learn about them . Salomon ( 1986 ) discusses how the ...
... Communist dictatorships ? These recent Second World collective outbursts ( circa 1989-90 ) were perhaps as much a rejection of Communist / Socialist gov- ernment bureaucracies as anything else . If so , people in such nations should be ...
... Communist bloc and in less wealthy nations have produced growing interest in nonprofit organizations , voluntary action , and problems of civil society world- wide . ARNOVA always has included many Canadians as well as Americans ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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Poverty and the Third Way Colin C Williams,Colin C. Williams,Jan Windebank No preview available - 2004 |