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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... efforts on the VNPS . We have , therefore , incomplete and inadequate information on nearly every research question that has ever been examined about the VNPS as a whole or about VGs generally , mainly because of ignoring GAs and their ...
... efforts are turned inward or outward ( Knoke and Wood , 1981 ) . Low Professionalism GAs tend not to be interested or involved in the nonprofit management pro- fession ( Rubin , Adamski , and Block , 1989 ) , the volunteer ...
... effort is cen- tral to GAs , commitment to such effort must continually be generated . Knoke and Wood ( 1981 ) did an important study of the factors in the generation of com- mitment in local paid - staff and GA social influence ...
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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 |