By now, the becoming business-like of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) is a well-established
global phenomenon that has received ever-growing attention from management and …

Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations
(MA s) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies …

Description: Second edition.| Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routedge, 2020.| Includes
bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019035535 (print)| LCCN …

In contribution to current debates on the changing roles and responsibilities of civil society in
welfare state arrangements, I examined the participation of various types of civil society …

This chapter is a tour of the Scandinavian lobbying landscape providing the state of the art
for research on a contested and necessary activity. We discuss the particular context of the …

Over the last several decades, a number of societal changes can be expected to have led to
the increased mobilization of interest groups representing citizen interests. For this …

The aim of this paper is thus to further explore the relationship between involvement in
voluntary associations at the community level and specific forms of political participation. We …

This article focuses on the changing level of participation of voluntary organisations in the
policy process between 1964 and 2009 and its implication for the role played by voluntary …

Research question: The paper aims to build knowledge on the trade-offs and unintended
consequences of professionalization in the context of sport policy advocacy. Two questions …

Early last century, a norm to integrate organized interests into the policy processes was
established. Groups gained influence and the state could implement legitimate public policy …