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Gibson, Cynthia M.

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In whose interest: Do national nonprofit advocacy organizations represent the under-represented?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In whose interest: Do national nonprofit advocacy organizations represent the under-represented?/
Author:	Gibson, Cynthia M.
Description:	158 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4167.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Social Work. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3195684
ISBN:	9780542411472

In whose interest: Do national nonprofit advocacy organizations represent the under-represented?
Gibson, Cynthia M.

In whose interest: Do national nonprofit advocacy organizations represent the under-represented? - 158 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4167.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2005.

The rise in the number of national nonprofit advocacy organizations (NNAOs) and their increasing influence in the policymaking process has raised questions about whether they continue to represent the average citizen, particularly those from the under-represented constituencies (e.g., poor and low-income people) they were established to represent or whether they have become part of a relatively closed lobbying process that dominated the policymaking process prior to their rise to prominence. Using quantitative data culled from the IRS 990 forms and a national survey of several hundred national nonprofit advocacy organizations about their membership, activities, decision-making processes, level of professionalization, funding sources and issue agendas, this study examines whether these factors influence the agendas of NNAOs, in particular, whether they are materialist (focused on jobs, housing, and other issues of more concern to under-represented groups) or postmaterialist (focused on quality of life issues or those of concern to educated and wealthy patrons). The study finds support for theories that suggest that NNAOs have become professionalized institutions with "checkbook members" in that they do not survey their membership/constituencies for input about organizational matters, nearly all of which are decided by professional staff; their primary requirement for membership is making a financial contribution; and they favor more sophisticated activities that do not directly involve their members or constituents. Nevertheless, most NNAOs make a distinction between "members" and "constituents," stating that although their members may be more educated and financially secure, they see their primary constituents---those that benefit from NNAOs' activities---as members of under-represented groups. Objective tests to determine representation by assessing whether NNAOs' agendas were materialist or postmateralist were inconclusive, suggesting that longitudinal research and more rigorous measures of postmaterialism and materialism are needed. Factor analyses, however, show that several issues that have traditionally been associated with materialism cluster together, while postmaterialism breaks down into several discrete, single issues, which may reflect a shift in NNAOs' emphasis---from building larger movements around a cluster of related issues (those reflected in the materialist construct) to championing single issues, which are more postmaterialist in focus and attract a different type of constituency.

ISBN: 9780542411472Subjects--Topical Terms:

617587
Social Work.

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