Rhetorics of Welfare: Uncertainty, Choice and Voluntary Associations

by Susan Kenny, Kevin M. Brown, Bryan S. Turner

Book Overview

The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending political participation. The study explores the economic constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can function as 'schools...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349422061
• ISBN13: 9781349422067
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"