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Voluntary Associations and State Expansion in Quebec - 1955-1970
Academic journal article from Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 1
Beginning of article
INTRODUCTION
The political importance of voluntary groups has been the subject of classic works of sociology.2 The complex relationship between the state and voluntary groups has furthermore attracted renewed theoretical and empirical interest in recent years (Cohen & Arato, 1992; Hall,1994; Gellner 1994). Fundamental to much of this work is an attempt to determine the exact impact that rapid state and governmental bureaucratic expansion have on the larger society within which the state functions. Such considerations lead immediately to the formulation of certain questions: Is state expansion basically detrimental or beneficial to the flourishing of a healthy civic culture? …
