PADP 7210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theodor W. Adorno, Participatory Democracy, Alexis De Tocqueville

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Public Administration and Policy
• Course: PADP 7210
• Professor: Nesbit

Document Summary

Lecture 7b: in-depth political theories of the nonprofit sector. In addition to provides services, nonprofits also: maintain diversity an expression of the diversity of commitments in a pluralist society , provide a corrective to bureaucratic inflexibility, serve as place for collective political action . For the mobilization of disadvantaged or disgruntled constituencies : conundrums associated with nonprofits providing government services, can obscure the political process in which partnerships between government & nonprofits are constituted. Including nonprofits as service delivery vehicles for government changes the political roles of government. & nonprofits (government becomes funder instead of an implementer: might undermine legitimacy of public provision of services. Padp 7210 intro to nonprofit: people receive political socialization primarily through families, the media, peers, schools, religious organizations, the legal system, & nonprofit organizations, nonprofits as institutions for political socialization, associations as schools of citizenship [tocqueville, & social networks (adults who volunteer more engaged politically)