Organizing for Collective Action: The PolÃtical Economies of AssociationsTransaction Publishers, 1990 - 258 pages Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups. It focuses upon the ways that these organizations acquire resources and allocate them to various collective actions, particularly for member services, public relations, and political action. This analysis is structured around three broad theoretical paradigms for collective action: (1) the problem of societal integration which concerns the ways that people are tied to organizations and the ways that organizations connect their members with the larger society; (2) the problem of organizational governance which considers how individuals become unified collectivities capable of acting in a coordinated manner, and (3) the problem of public policy influence which involves interactions among public and private interest groups to formulate the binding decisions under which we all must live. |
Contents
Unlimited Freedom of Associations | xiii |
What are Collective Action Organizations? | 1 |
Centrality of Associations in Society | 3 |
The Social Integration Problem | 4 |
The Organizational Governance Problem | 8 |
The Public PolicyMaking Problem | 12 |
Conclusion | 17 |
Plan of the Book | 18 |
Incentive Systems and Organization Goals | 108 |
The Structure of Incentives | 110 |
An Empirical Incentive Typology | 114 |
Conclusion | 116 |
7 Member Interest in Incentives | 119 |
Motives for Joining and Contributing | 120 |
Measuring Member Interest in Incentives | 123 |
Interests in Multiple Incentives | 128 |
Theory and Data | 21 |
Choosing Collective Action | 23 |
The Public Goods Dilemma | 27 |
Research Evidence on Collective Action | 31 |
The Normative Conformity Model | 34 |
The Affective Bonding Model | 37 |
A Synthesized Motivational Model | 39 |
Conclusion | 40 |
A Theory of Association Political Economy | 43 |
Theoretical Requirements | 44 |
Environments and Organizations | 47 |
The Internal Economy | 50 |
The Internal Polity | 54 |
The External Polity | 57 |
Testing the Theory | 60 |
Conclusion | 61 |
A Profile of American Associations | 63 |
The National Association Study | 64 |
A Descriptive Overview | 68 |
Organization Size | 69 |
Administrative Structure | 72 |
Organization Goals | 75 |
Environments of Associations | 77 |
Member Attributes | 80 |
Conclusion | 81 |
Organizational Economy | 83 |
5 FundRaising and Resource Allocation | 85 |
Budgetary Compositions | 86 |
Predictors of the Budget Process | 91 |
Statistical Procedures | 93 |
Revenue and Expenditure Effects | 95 |
Interaction Effects | 98 |
Member Contributions | 99 |
Conclusion | 101 |
6 Organizational Incentive Systems | 103 |
The PredispositionOpportunity Framework | 104 |
The LobbyingServices TradeOff | 129 |
Incentives and Contributions | 131 |
Conclusion | 135 |
Organizational Polity | 137 |
8 Association Governance | 139 |
Authority and Influence | 141 |
Influence Distribution | 143 |
Authority Structures | 146 |
Influence Distributions | 150 |
Determinants of Governance Structures | 153 |
Conclusion | 156 |
9 Member Involvement | 159 |
Theoretical Expectations | 160 |
Measurements | 164 |
Contextual Analysis Methods | 170 |
Results | 172 |
Total Communication | 176 |
Interpretation | 180 |
Conclusion | 181 |
10 Mobilization for Influence | 183 |
Associations in the Organizational State | 185 |
An Advocacy Explosion | 186 |
Mobilizing Members | 189 |
Association Political Capacity | 191 |
Organizational Mobilization Efforts | 194 |
Member External Participation | 197 |
Organization Influence Tactics | 203 |
Conclusion | 208 |
Conclusion | 211 |
11 All the Advantages of Civilization | 213 |
Implications | 218 |
Directions for Future Research | 220 |
To Civilize Our Public Life | 224 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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