We examine scholarship on the role and influence of advocacy organizations in the US
political process. We identify common theoretical questions in the disconnected literatures …

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting-and keeping-people involved
in activism? From MoveOn. org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America …

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political
discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly …

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the US healthcare system
since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new …

Norman H. Nie, Jane Junn, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry explore in this volume the causal
relationships between education and democratic citizenship. They argue that citizenship …

This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network
approach to political behavior. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most …

The assumption that resource availability enhances the likelihood of collective action is
generally taken for granted by contemporary analysts of social movements (see Zald 1992; …

The authoritative text for current and future practitioners of human resources management in
the sport and recreation industries is back in a revised fourth edition. This new edition …

This article uses data from the Citizen Participation Study–a large-scale survey of the
voluntary activity of the American public designed to oversample African-Americans and …