Voluntary Associations
By: John W. Chapman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781351299800
Subjects: Associations, institutions; Cultural pluralism; Societies; Cultural Diversity; Associations; Diversité culturelle
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, The Nature of Voluntary Associations --; title: chapter 1 Two Principles of Human Association  -- Lon L. Fuller; title: chapter 2 Commentary: Shared Commitment and the Legal Principle  -- Abraham Edel; title: chapter 3 Commentary: Transcending Privacy  -- Henry S. Kariel; title: chapter 4 Voluntary Association as a Rational Ideal  -- H.S. Harris; title: chapter 5 Commentary: Constitutional Ideals and Private Associations  -- Willard Hurst; title: chapter 6 Man and Society: An Examination of Three Models  -- Leonard G. Boonin; title: part, Historical Perspectives --; title: chapter 7 Voluntary Association and the Political Theory of Pluralism  -- John W. Chapman; title: chapter 8 Rousseau on Intermediate Associations  -- Maure L. Goldschmidt; title: chapter 9 Some Remarks on Tocqueville's View of Voluntary Associations  -- George Kateb; title: part, Pluralism in Practice --; title: chapter 10 The Public Values of the Private Association Grant Mcconnell  -- Grant Mcconnell; title: chapter 11 Commentary: Pluralism, Empiricism, and the Secondary Association  -- David Sidorsky; title: chapter 12 Private Government in the Managed Society  -- Sanford A. Lakoff; title: chapter 13 Voluntary Association: The Basis of An Ideal Model, and the "Democratic" Failure  -- William Leon McBride; title: chapter 14 The Constitution and the Voluntary Association: Some Notes Toward a Theory  -- Arthur Selwyn Miller; title: chapter 15 Corporative Organization: The Case of a French Rural Association  -- Suzanne Berger; title: chapter 16 Epilogue -- J. Roland Pennock.