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
Hahrie Han is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.
"Too many of our organizations merely try to inform, exhort, and
mobilize. If they would restrain a bit the urge to exhort and
instead invest in the long-term work of organizing, they --and our
movement as a whole-- would gain strength. To the extent this book
helps prompt that change it makes an urgently valuable
contribution." --Organize North Carolina
"...the insights here about the transformational power of
organizing and how that differs from mobilizing are compelling,
well supported, and chart an inspiring path for those interested in
developing a more engaged citizenry and a healthier democracy."
--Political Science Quarterly
"For all the scholarship on social movements and civic
associations, surprisingly little research has focused on the issue
of organizational effectiveness. Han's book should go a long way
toward filling this gap. Using a mix of comparative case analysis
and field experiments, the author offers an empirically rich,
analytically compelling account of why some associations succeed in
mobilizing effective collective action, while so many others fail
-- often
spectacularly -- to do so. This book deserves the widest possible
audience in political science, sociology and, most importantly,
among those who aspire to successful grass roots activism." --Doug
McAdam,
author of Freedom Summer
"As organizers, we know that winning real change begins with real
people, but it's not always easy to know what strategies are most
effective for engaging people in ways that build power. How
Organizations Develop Activists fills that gap, and is a must-read
for any organizer or organization looking to build people power."
--Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
and co-director of Caring Across Generations
"Effective citizens' movements need to do much more than raise
money and recruit the right individual adherents. Helping members
become fully engaged and developing good volunteer leaders are the
keys to having a real impact -- and Hahrie Han's pathbreaking
research shows exactly how these challenges can be met with
well-designed organizational strategies. Her book is a must-read
for all who care about making American democracy more vibrant and
powerful."
--Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and
Sociology, Harvard University, and Director, Scholars Strategy
Network
"How Organizations Develop Activists is a mature work of
scholarship that deftly makes an incredibly important theoretical
turn by bringing the most coherent community leadership development
model, crafted by congregation-based organizational (CBO) leaders,
to a close empirical analysis of the variable effectiveness of
leadership approaches in garden-variety nonprofit advocacy
organizations, also widely referred to as SMOs (social movement
organizations)." --
Social Forces
"[E]xcellent... presents a compelling frame for how to think about
maintaining and growing activist organizations and will be of
interest both to scholars and students of social movements as well
as activists in the field." -- Journal of Politics
"Han deploys a neat research design that combines survey
experiments with comparisons of high-engagement and low-engagement
chapters of two national organizations...This book is not just
about civic associations. Nor is it just about social movements.
There are lessons here for all collective endeavors and human
projects, especially of a strategic sort." -- James Jasper,
American Journal of Sociology
"Hahrie Han's How Organizations Develop Activists is an accessible,
interesting, and important book that social movement scholars and
activists will find compelling and worthwhile." --Shannon Elizabeth
Ball, University of Kentucky
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