New participatory dimensions in civil society
Subtitle: professionalization and individualized collective action
By: edited by Jan W. van Deth and William A. Maloney
Series: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science -- 77
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415588935; 9780203142738
Subjects: Civil society; Political participation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: democracy, professionalization and participation / Jan W. van Deth and William A. Maloney; title: How to domesticate civil society by public-private partnerships / Matthias Freise; title: Entrepreneurial participation in international local politics / Nicolas Maisetti; title: New issues, new forms of action? / Christopher Rootes; title: The professionalization of EU's civil society / Sabine Saurugger; title: The democratic contribution of professionalized representation / William A. Maloney; title: Professionalized supply-side mobilization: are financial contributors meaningful participants? / Grant Jordan; title: New modes of participation and norms of citizenship / Jan W. van Deth; title: A remedy for unequal participation? how welfare states impact on social and political engagement / Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen; title: Peripheral participants. the activation of the politically less engaged in advanced democracies / Eline A. de Rooij; title: Surrogates for the underrepresented? ideology and participatory inequality in personal and professional political action / Tom W.G. van der Meer; title: The stability of individualized collective action / Ellen Quintelier and Marc Hooghe; title: Youth participation from the top-down / Ariadne Vromen; title: Conclusions: how democratic is professionalized and individualized political action? / Jan W. van Deth and William A. Maloney.