Private Groups and Public Life: Social Participation, Voluntary Associations and Political Involvement in Representative Democracies (European Political Science Series)

This book focuses on the changing relationship between social and political involvement in Western Europe. Empirical case studies examine how new social movements interact with conventional political structures as individuals and groups experiment with new forms of political expression. The results indicate not a declining, but a changing democratic culture. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 8 FIGURES......Page 11 TABLES......Page 12 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 15 PREFACE......Page 18 INTRODUCTION......Page 19 Interest groups and intermediary organizations......Page 21 Voluntary associations......Page 23 The perspectives combined......Page 25 Context and contacts......Page 27 Participation breeds participation......Page 29 PLAN OF THE BOOK......Page 33 NOTES......Page 35 REFERENCES......Page 37 VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY......Page 43 MEMBERSHIP OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS......Page 44 INSIDE THE VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION......Page 47 Social activity......Page 48 Politicization......Page 49 Leadership......Page 50 Responsiveness......Page 53 VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION......Page 56 THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF GROUPS......Page 61 NOTES......Page 63 REFERENCES......Page 64 INTRODUCTION......Page 66 SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY......Page 67 The roles and functions of organizations......Page 70 Changing social relations......Page 72 Increase in social reflexivity......Page 73 THE TOCQUEVILLEAN THESIS REVISITED......Page 74 CONCLUSION......Page 78 NOTES......Page 79 REFERENCES......Page 80 INTRODUCTION......Page 83 SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES: THE MODEL OF ‘PILLARIZATION’......Page 84 POLITICAL PARTIES REPRESENTING ‘OLD’ AND ‘NEW' CLEAVAGES......Page 87 MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND STABLE VOTING BEHAVIOUR......Page 89 Concepts and measures......Page 90 Memberships, generations and stable voting......Page 91 Explaining stable voting......Page 94 CONCLUSION......Page 95 NOTES......Page 97 REFERENCE......Page 98 INTRODUCTION......Page 101 WOMEN, CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY......Page 102 Organizational types come and go......Page 104 The changing gender composition of the voluntary society......Page 106 Are young women more like men?......Page 109 Extinct versus surviving organizations......Page 113 Are the new organizations different?......Page 116 CONCLUSION......Page 119 NOTES......Page 121 REFERENCES......Page 123 INCREASED NUMBERS OF GROUPS AND PARTICIPANTS......Page 126 ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION? CADRE GROUP TO PROTEST BUSINESS......Page 127 WHO PARTICIPATES IN ‘MAIL-ORDER’ GROUPS? THE ROLE OF MARKETING......Page 130 The decay of parties and the growth of groups......Page 133 Supporters and participatory democracy......Page 135 CONCLUSION: A CONTINUING DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT?......Page 138 NOTES......Page 140 REFERENCES......Page 142 INTRODUCTION......Page 145 THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 146 MODELLING THE DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 151 MEASURING THE DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL CAPITAL......Page 153 ESTIMATING THE MODEL......Page 157 CONCLUSION......Page 160 NOTES......Page 161 REFERENCES......Page 162 INTRODUCTION......Page 164 THE SYSTEM UNDER ATTACK......Page 165 THE COUNCIL MEMBER......Page 167 THE STATE’S INTERESTS......Page 171 CONCLUSION......Page 176 NOTES......Page 178 REFERENCES......Page 179 INTRODUCTION......Page 183 DATA AND INDICATORS......Page 185 The social structure of associative participation......Page 187 The social structure of political participation......Page 189 ASSOCIATIVE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 191 EXPLAINING ASSOCIATIVE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 194 NEIGHBOURHOOD AND AREA......Page 198 NOTES......Page 200 REFERENCES......Page 201 INTRODUCTION......Page 204 THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOCAL POLITICS......Page 205 ZWOLLE AND ITS INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS......Page 207 ACCESS TO THE POLITICAL SYSTEM......Page 213 CONCLUSION......Page 215 NOTES......Page 216 REFERENCES......Page 217 INTRODUCTION......Page 219 CONCEPTUALIZING ORGANIZING CAPACITY......Page 220 Modernization and involvement: the general framework......Page 221 Human capital potential......Page 224 Communication capacity......Page 225 Mobilization potential......Page 226 Testing the hypotheses......Page 227 Inequality and modernity......Page 233 Inequality in organizing capacity......Page 234 CONCLUSION......Page 237 NOTES......Page 238 REFERENCES......Page 239 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 242 DATA AND INDICATORS......Page 244 INTRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PATTERNS IN PARTICIPATION......Page 246 PROTEST AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 249 POLITICAL CULTURE AND ATTITUDINAL CORRELATES OF PARTICIPATION......Page 252 CONCLUSION......Page 256 NOTES......Page 258 REFERENCES......Page 260 INDEX......Page 262 Introduction : Social Involvement And Democratic Politics / Jan W. Van Deth -- Voluntary Associations And Democratic Participation In Britain / George Moyser And Geraint Parry -- Social Reflexivity, Democracy And New Types Of Citizen Involvement In Denmark / Peter Gundelach And Lars Torpe -- Political Parties And Social Organizations In Flanders / Jaak B. Billiet -- Women And The Transformation Of The Norwegian Voluntary Sector / Per Selle -- The Rise Of Protest Businesses In Britain / William A. Maloney And Grant Jordan -- Political Capital Formation Among British Party Members / Paul F. Whiteley And Patrick Seyd -- The Corporatist Channel And Civil Society In The Netherlands / Jantine Oldersma -- Associative Abd Political Participation In Switzerland And France / Dominique Joye And Annie Laurent -- The Political Participation Of Intermediary Organizations At The Local Level / Herman Lelieveldt -- Organizing Capacity Of Societies And Modernity / Bernhard Wessels -- Voluntary Associations, Social Movements And Individual Political Behaviour In Western Europe / Paul Dekker, Rund Koopmans And Andries Van Den Broek. Edited By Jan W. Van Deth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.