Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations

This book examines citizen engagement in contemporary democratic politics and the development of new participatory forms. Based on empirical information gathere

This book offers the first systematic assessment of what associations do and don't do for democracy. Warren explains how and when associational life expands the

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Following a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach, this book highlights changes in the concept and action of disobedience, presenting a theoretical framework