TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han,Hahrie
TI  - How organizations develop activists: civic associations and leadership in the 21st century 
SN  - 9780199336760
AV  - JK1118 .H348 2014
U1  - 322.4068 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Public interest groups
KW  - United States
KW  - Management
KW  - Membership
KW  - Pressure groups
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index; Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Setting Up the Comparative Case Studies -- Chapter 3 Choosing Strategies for Building Power -- Chapter 4 Prospecting for Activists -- Chapter 5 Developing Leaders -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Methods -- Works Cited -- Notes -- Index
N2  - "Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others?   Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares organizations with strong records of engaging people in health and environmental politics to those with weaker records. To build power, civic associations need quality and quantity (or depth and breadth) of activism. They need lots of people to take action and also a cadre of leaders to develop and execute that activity. Yet, models for how to develop activists and leaders are not necessarily transparent. This book provides these models to help associations build the power they want and support a healthy democracy. In particular, the book examines organizing, mobilizing, and lone wolf models of engagement and shows how highly active associations blend mobilizing and organizing to transform their members' motivations and capacities for involvement.  This is not a simple story about the power of offline versus online organizing. Instead, it is a story about how associations can blend both online and offline strategies to build their activist base. In this compelling book, Hahrie Han explains how civic associations can invest in their members and build the capacity they need to inspire action"--
ER  -