The Roots of Civil Society: A Model of Voluntary Association Prevalence Applied to Data on Larger Contemporary Nations
The Roots of Civil Society: A Model of Voluntary Association Prevalence Applied to Data on Larger Contemporary Nations
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公民社会的根源：应用于当代较大国家数据的自愿结社普遍性模型
DOI：
10.1177/002071520204300201
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Ce Shen
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文献类型：
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作者：
D. Smith;Ce Shen
在文献综述的基础上，提出了世界各国自愿结社流行的理论。假设更大的结社盛行率是由某些社会背景因素（更大的人口规模和更有利的历史/文化/环境界面）、基本社会结构的各个方面（更宽松的政治控制、更大的现代化、更发达的非结社组织领域和更大的民族宗教异质性）和社会动员因素（社团的总体资源动员、总体社会凝聚力）造成的。当代较大国家的档案数据有力地证实了 20 世纪 70 年代和 1990 年代初这两个不同时期的大部分模型。民族宗教异质性变量未被证实具有显着性。作为测试的实证模型的一部分，没有合适的数据可用于测试总体社会凝聚力。研究结果对公民社会、政治多元化和参与性民主的根源具有重要的政策影响，部分是社会资本在社会中的表现。
Based on a literature review, a theory of voluntary association prevalence in nations of the world is proposed. Greater associational prevalence is hypothesized to result from certain societal background factors (greater population size, and more favorable historical/cultural/environmental interface), aspects of basic societal structure (more permissive political control, greater modernization, more developed non-associational organizational field, and greater ethno-religious heterogeneity), and societal mobilization factors (aggregate resource mobilization for associations, aggregate social cohesion). Archival data on larger contemporary nations strongly confirm most of the model independently for two separate time periods, the 1970s and early 1990s. The ethno-religious heterogeneity variable is not confirmed as significant. No suitable data were available to test aggregate social cohesion as part of the empirical model tested. The results have important policy implications for the roots of civil society, political pluralism, and participatory democracy, partially as manifestations of social capital in a society.