Voluntary Associations
by Chapman,John W.Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2007-10-15
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Nature of Voluntary Associations | |
| Two Principles of Human Association | p. 3 |
| Commentary: Shared Commitment and the Legal Principle | p. 24 |
| Commentary: Transcending Privacy | p. 35 |
| Voluntary Association as a Rational Ideal | p. 41 |
| Commentary: Constitutional Ideals and Private Associations | p. 63 |
| Man and Society: An Examination of Three Models | p. 69 |
| Historical Perspectives | |
| Voluntary Association and the Political Theory of Pluralism | p. 87 |
| Rousseau on Intermediate Associations | p. 119 |
| Some Remarks on Tocqueville's View of Voluntary Associations | p. 138 |
| Pluralism in Practice | |
| The Public Values of the Private Association | p. 147 |
| Commentary: Pluralism, Empiricism, and the Secondary Association | p. 161 |
| Private Government in the Managed Society | p. 170 |
| Voluntary Association: The Basis of an Ideal Model, and the "Democratic" Failure | p. 202 |
| The Constitution and the Voluntary Association: Some Notes Toward a Theory | p. 233 |
| Corporative Organization: The Case of a French Rural Association | p. 263 |
| Epilogue | p. 285 |
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