Modernizing democracy :
xix, 357 p. ; 24 cm. Content notes : 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 England --
Chapter 22. Towards a neoliberal Third sector? International lessons from recent developments in China --
Chapter 23. Social Investment: Franco-German Experiences --
Chapter 24. Opportunities and limits of cooperatives in times of socio-ecological transformation --
Chapter 25. Nonprofit Arts and Culture in the United States: Roles, Audiences and Participation --
Chapter 26. Major Giving in Germany: Facts and Opportunities --
Chapter 27. Aktive Bürgerschaft: Innovations for Civil Society in Germany--
Index. Institutions. Voluntarism. Nonprofit organizations. Democracy. Hallmann, Thorsten,