NDLI: From city club to nation state: business networks in American political development

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Clemens, Elisabeth S.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Although cities were given no role in the constitutional order of the United States, the new nation posed the same potential threats to the accumulation of capital and wealth as European monarchs posed to long-powerful urban centers. In mobilizing for self-protection and advancement, American business developed new practices and discourses of citizenship that sustained a central role for the community as the locus of social provision. The strategy combined opportunity-hoarding through restricted membership in civic groups and obligation-hoarding through the alignment of diverse networks of voluntarism with this civic core. The linkage of business interests to this hybrid charitable-civic configuration constituted a source of resistance to nationalizing tendencies driven by demands for social protection. This alternative model of social provision and civic organization sustained a distinctive pattern of political membership and state development. By fiercely defending the capacity of privately governed civic networks to provide substantial social support, this history of business influence through community organizations lives on in the partial and fragmented character of the American welfare state.
Starting Page	377
Ending Page	396
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03042421
Journal	Theory and Society
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	3-4
e-ISSN	15737853
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-03-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of the Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science History

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