Modernizing Democracy Associations and Associating in the 21st Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Freise, Matthias (Editor), Hallmann, Thorsten (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Social Policy.

Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important providers of welfare services an...