Civil Society's Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation...

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Nicole Bolleyer (Chair of Comparative Political Science, Chair of Comparative Political Science, LMU Munich)

Civil Society's Democratic Potential

Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation

Nicole Bolleyer (Chair of Comparative Political Science, Chair of Comparative Political Science, LMU Munich)

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Oxford University Press
30 April 2024

Sociology; Political science & theory; Comparative politics; Political structures: democracy

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

In Civil Society's Democratic Potential, Nicole Bolleyer explores which civil society organizations (CSOs) contribute to democracy, how, and why.

Organized civil society, including interest groups, political parties, and service-oriented associations, is traditionally considered a cornerstone of democracy. Constituting the organizational fabric between government and society, these organizations encompass a wide diversity of entities thought to fundamentally contribute to both democratic participation and representation. However, CSOs' readiness and ability to serve as venues for participation, vehicles of democratic representation, or indeed both at the same time, are increasingly questioned in political science, sociology, and voluntary sector research alike. Bringing those fields together, the author argues that two contrasting organizational templates - the 'voluntary association' and the 'professionalized voluntary organization' - allow theorizing fundamental trade-offs shaping CSOs' 'performance' on three dimensions accounting for their varying democratic contributions: participation, representation, and societal responsiveness. The study's innovative theoretical framework is examined using a mixed-methods design. The latter combines the analysis of survey data covering over 3000 CSOs across four European democracies with qualitative case studies of the evolution of three CSOs - a political party, an interest group, and a service-orientated organization - over several decades.

By: Nicole Bolleyer (Chair of Comparative Political Science Chair of Comparative Political Science LMU Munich)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198884392
ISBN 10: 0198884397
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: A Multidimensional Framework on Civil Society's Contributions to Democracy 2: The Distinct Internal Logics of Associations and Professionalized Voluntary Organizations 3: Methodological Choices and Data 4: The Distinct Roles of Members in Civil Society Organizations: Trading Member Control against Leader Autonomy 5: When Managers Take Over: Drivers of Staff Control in Civil Society Organizations 6: From Voluntary Association to Professionalized Voluntary Organization: The Evolution of Member Activism and Staff Control in Civil Society Organizations 7: CSO Goal Reorientation in Individualizing Societies: Between Commitment and Change 8: CSOs' Political Engagement: Between the Logic of Membership and the Logic of Influence 9: From Voluntary Association to Professionalized Voluntary Organization: CSO Goal Reorientation and the Evolution of Political Engagement 10: Disaggregating the Transmission Belt and the Study of CSOs' Democratic Contributions Bibliography

Nicole Bolleyer is Chair of Comparative Political Science at LMU Munich (Germany). She is the author of several monographs including New Parties in Old Party Systems: Patterns of Persistence and Decline in Seventeen Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The State and Civil Society: Regulating Interest Groups, Parties and Public Benefit Organizations in Contemporary Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her research has appeared in a wide range of leading journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Social Forces, and the European Journal of Political Research.