Private Groups and Public Life: Social Participation, Voluntary Associations and Political Involvement in Representative Democracies

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Editor's Preface vii
• Figures x
• Tables xi
• Preface xvii
• 1 - Introduction 1
• 2 - Voluntary Associations and Democratic Participation in Britain 24
• 3 - Social Reflexivity, Democracy and New Types of Citizen Involvement in Denmark 47
• 4 - Political Parties and Social Organizations in Flanders 64
• 5 - Women and the Transformation of the Norwegian Voluntary Sector 82
• 6 - The Rise of Protest Businesses in Britain 107
• 7 - Political Capital Formation Among British Party Members 125
• 8 - The Corporatist Channel and Civil Society in the Netherlands 144
• 9 - Associative and Political Participation in Switzerland and France 163
• 10 - The Political Participation of Intermediary Organizations at the Local Level 183

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Editor's Preface vii
• Figures x
• Tables xi
• Preface xvii
• 1 - Introduction 1
• 2 - Voluntary Associations and Democratic Participation in Britain 24
• 3 - Social Reflexivity, Democracy and New Types of Citizen Involvement in Denmark 47
• 4 - Political Parties and Social Organizations in Flanders 64
• 5 - Women and the Transformation of the Norwegian Voluntary Sector 82
• 6 - The Rise of Protest Businesses in Britain 107
• 7 - Political Capital Formation Among British Party Members 125
• 8 - The Corporatist Channel and Civil Society in the Netherlands 144
• 9 - Associative and Political Participation in Switzerland and France 163
• 10 - The Political Participation of Intermediary Organizations at the Local Level 183
• 11 - Organizing Capacity of Societies and Modernity 198
• 12 - Voluntary Associations, Social Movements and Individual Political Behaviour in Western Europe 220
• Index 241