Modernizing Democracy

- Preface

Chapter 1. Modernizing Democracy? Associations and Associating in the 21st Century

Chapter 2. Social Life and Politics in Voluntary Organizations :An Historical Perspective

Chapter 3. Alexis de Tocqueville revisited: Between the Centralization of Political Power, Civil Associations and Gender Politics in the European Union

Chapter 4. Tocqueville did not write about soccer clubs: Participation in voluntary associations and political involvement

Chapter 5. Voluntary Associations and Social Capital: Inclusive and exclusive dimensions

Chapter 6. Who Calls the Shots? The Real Normative Power of Civil Society

Chapter 7. The Impact of Civil Society on Sustainable Development

Chapter 8. Volunteering in a hybrid institutional and organizational environment: An emerging research agenda

Chapter 9. Voluntary Involvement in German Welfare Organizations

Chapter 10. Changes in work and human services: On the risks and chances they entail for volunteering

Chapter 11. Residual and Emancipatory Value of Volunteering in the Czech Society

Chapter 12. Two Decades of Participatory Democracy in Poland

Chapter 13. The role of civil society organizations in the field of unemployment: for or by the unemployed?

Chapter 14. Transnational mobility and associative life

Chapter 15. Associating at the European level: Civil Society Networks in Brussels

Chapter 16. Why Is There no Statute for a European Association?

Chapter 17. Developments in the Third Sector - The Last Decade and a Cautious View into the Future

Chapter 18. "Though we manage we are no corporation!" Patterns in volunteer management of German youth organisations

Chapter 19. Governance logics in NGDO-Boards between political and economic challenges: Empirical results from Austria

Chapter 20. Associating for Affordable Housing: Nonprofit Social Housing in Germany and the US

Chapter 21. From Mainstreaming to Modernization? New Labour and the Third Sector in

Matthias Freise received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Münster University, Germany where Annette Zimmer was his doctoral advisor. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Political Science and executive director of the Graduate School of Politics at the same place. Previously, he supervised a doctoral research group on "European Civil Society and Multilevel Governance" at Münster University together with Annette Zimmer. His research interests include civil society theory, third sector research, European multilevel governance and interest representation. He is co-editor of the series "European Civil Society" at Nomos Publishers. Recent publications include A Panacea for all seasons? Civil Society and Governance in Europe (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010) and several articles on civil society organisations in public private partnerships. In addition, Matthias Freise is a teacher in the advanced training course on Nonprofit Management and Governance at Münster University.

Thorsten Hallmann received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Münster University, Germany, in 2008. His dissertation dealt with the public discourse on drug policy and the "drug scene" in Münster. He is mainly working on third sector and local policy issues. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the WILCO research team, a EU-funded international project on welfare innovations on the local level. As a student, he joined the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project team in Münster, headed by Annette Zimmer. Later they conducted further research on local associations together. Hallmann also worked as a volunteer and board member in a local refugee relief organisation and is an active member of further civic associations.