Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about" bowling alone"
seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty …

Commonly, researchers have looked for civic life in a distinct sector in which they assume
that voluntary associations will cultivate special skills and virtues. Gathering together many …

Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents
crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government …

There is an urgent need to understand how private and public organisations can play a role
in promoting human values such as fairness, dignity, respect and care. Globalisation …

This article examines the performative work of consultants who facilitate public engagement
(PE) processes in organizations. Using multimethod ethnography, I find that PE practitioners …

Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organisations in the production and delivery
of social services has been adopted across many welfare states. Economic and …

Does a participatory, open-ended organizational format inspire creativity and draw on
participants' local knowledge? Many nonprofits operate under this assumption, and many of …

What used to be called 'the new French pragmatic sociology'is not so new anymore. Twenty-
four years since Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot published their landmark treatise De la …

The contribution of meaningfulness to the work of democratic will formation - Ruth Yeoman,
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Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between
countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often …