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

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, relea

Explores how people participate in public life through organizations. The authors examine three organizations and show surprising similarities across them.

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people strug

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however,