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By Peter Frumkin
This concise and illuminating ebook offers a street map to the evolving conceptual and coverage terrain of the nonprofit zone. Drawing on admired fiscal, political, and sociological motives of nonprofit job, Peter Frumkin specializes in 4 vital services that experience come to outline nonprofit enterprises. the writer clarifies the controversy over the underlying purpose for the nonprofit and voluntary sector's privileged place in the USA by way of analyzing how nonprofits convey wanted prone, advertise civic engagement, exhibit values and religion, and channel entrepreneurial impulses. He additionally exposes the tough coverage questions that experience emerged because the obstacles among the nonprofit, company, and executive sectors have blurred. targeting nonprofits' turning out to be dependence on public investment, tendency towards political polarization, frequently idiosyncratic missions, and lengthening commercialism, Peter Frumkin argues that the long term demanding situations dealing with nonprofit enterprises will basically be solved once they in achieving higher stability between their 4 valuable capabilities. through probing foundational considering in addition to emergent rules, the booklet is a necessary consultant for nonprofit novitiates and specialists alike who are looking to comprehend the problems propelling public debate in regards to the way forward for their quarter. by way of advantage of its breadth and perception, Frumkin's publication can be a useful source for a person drawn to realizing the advanced interaction of public reasons and personal values that animate nonprofit agencies.
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12 While Democracy in America13 addresses a whole range of issues and topics, few could argue with the claim that one of the central questions of Tocqueville’s study is: How can one account for the fact that America is truly a democratic nation? Tocqueville’s famous answer starts with the unusual social condition of equality that he observed in America, a condition that made American democracy succeed where other attempts have failed. Tocqueville thus saw slavery as a profound threat to American democracy.
A key bridging concept was that of social capital, which he defined as an ephemeral element that facilitates action within social structures: “Social capital inheres in the structure of relations between actors and among actors. ”34 As examples of places where social capital is present, Coleman cited diamond markets, in which negotiations are conducted on the basis of trust and reputations developed over years; student “study circles” that hold political discussions in defiance of repressive regimes; and neighborhoods where children can play safely in public parks because of strong community ties and solidarity.
Today, long after Tocqueville and Channing, the debate still rages over whether groups of citizens acting through associations contribute to or conflict with individual rights. In recent years, progressives have begun to question the usefulness of clinging to Tocqueville’s early observations about small local associations at a time when American voluntarism has become professionalized, nationalized, and institutionalized. Important questions have been raised about whether the kinds of linkages that Tocqueville and others saw between small-scale civil society and political commitment still hold true, given the balkanization of the country over race, class, and ideology.