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Membership and Morals is a thoughtful, challenging, and carefully nuanced book that should be read by all serious scholars of civil society. -- Review


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Nancy L. Rosenblum in Membership and Morals has produced a powerful argument that the worriers have got it wrong--or at least they have chosen the wrong things to worry about.... Part of the attractiveness of her thesis is that it purports to cut across the usual lines of political battle.... The bulk of her book is made up of an impressive survey of the hard cases of social affiliation ... and her defense in every case of the rights of people in a democratic society to associate with those of like mind and belief.
(James Bowman The Times Literary Supplement )

Political theory, moral philosophy, and constitutional law desperately require a rigorous analysis of the role associations ought to play in sustaining good society. Such an analysis is precisely Nancy Rosenblum's great accomplishment.
(Alan Wolfe The New Republic )

Membership and Morals is a thoughtful, challenging, and carefully nuanced book that should be read by all serious scholars of civil society.
(Claire Morgan The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science )

Product Details

  • Paperback: 425 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press (May 8, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0691050236
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691050232
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #896,468 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The moment we begin to conjure up associations-Jaycees or the Michigan militia, homeowners' associations or the Mormon Church-we see difficulties with what has emerged as a driving force in public policy and a leading proposition in both social science and political theory: the idea that the relation between civil society and liberal democracy must be reciprocally supportive. Read the first page
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fusion republicanism, joyless polity, liberal democratic dispositions, compelled association, equal public standing, liberal expectancy, easy spontaneity, liberal democratic virtues, specific expressive purposes, incongruent groups, coerced expression, training statutes, ordinary injustice, romantic militarism, residential community associations, paramilitary associations, liberal democratic citizens, expressive association, association autonomy, moral uses, association voice, compelling association, liberal democratic norms, liberal democratic practices, unwanted members
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First Amendment, United States, Second Amendment, African Americans, Justice Brennan, Serbian Diocese, Justice O'Connor, Justice Douglas, New York City, Civil Rights Act, Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations, Democratic Party, Fourteenth Amendment, Michael Sandel, National Guard, New Jersey, Alamo Foundation, Bill of Rights, Justice Rehnquist, Justice Scalia, Mount Laurel, Nation of Islam, Anti-Defamation League, Charles Taylor
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4.0 out of 5 stars A thorough treatment of association, January 17, 2005
The Constitutional guarantee of free association has received disappointingly little attention from the academic world. This book and Amy Gutmann's "Freedom of Association" remain the only serious academic works devoted to this fascinating issue. Of the two Gutmann's book is superior, but one is better off reading both books if one wishes to have any meaningful understanding of this issue. Whereas Gutmann's book prefers to grapple with the difficulties and dangers inherent in this much-cherished freedom, "Membership and Morals" deals more directly with the nature of association and the various forms it takes. Rather than survey various issues related to association, Rosenblum writes a unitary work which argues that freedom of association is a necessary and valuable part of society. Though at times she overstates her case and makes association out to be a panacea for nearly everything which ails society, her book is nonetheless not to be taken lightly. She offers many important insights into the ways in which association influences society, and presents a strong case for taking freedom of association more seriously. One should find this book usually convincing and always engaging and well-articulated.
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