Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons

Index

Abelard, 40 abolitionism, 98 Adams, John, 35 Addams, Jane, 96 Albertus Magnus, 33 Althusius, Johannes, 24, 53–54, 156n21 America, development of civil society in, xvi, 84–106; Civil War, 94–95, 101; the common good in, 84, 85, 90, 92, 101, 104, 106; Dutch Republic’s influence on, 47, 86; Enlightenment, influence of, 84, 88; Federalist-Jeffersonian conflict, 90–92, 126, 163–64n18; free expression, 88–89, 99, 107, 163–64n18; Glorious Revolution and, 62, 86–87; immigration to America, 95–96, 98, 165n29, 165n33; individual rights, 85–89, 162n4; institutional structures, development of, 25, 26–27; media, expansion of, 96–101; philanthropy and philanthropic organizations in, 93–96, 101–4; political independence, 85–88; private associations, 89–96, 98–99, 104; slavery and abolitionism, 86, 98; tension between individual rights and the common good, 84–85, 92, 101, 104–6; tolerance in, 43, 85, 86, 88, 98, 101, 107, 162n6, 166n44 American Philosophical Society, 90 AmericaSpeaks, 176n39 Anabaptists, 41, 154n20 Anderson, Jon W., 170n28 Andrew, Donna, 79–80, 161n42 Anheier, Helmut, 5, 8, 177n40 Anselm of Milan, 40 Areopagitica (Milton), 29–30 Aristotle: on the common good, 32, 33, 78, 153n5, 154n20; on government, 9, 32; on individual rights, 36; on institutional structures, 13, 21; on tolerance, 40, 43 Arminians, 48, 49, 53 Articles of Confederation (U.S.), 84 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), 177n42 Audubon Society v. the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 117–18 Augustine of Hippo, 13, 39–40 Avisa Relation oder Zeitung of Strasbourg, 29 Bailyn, Bernard, 162n4 Bayle, Pierre, 41, 47, 49 BBC (British Broadcasting Company), 100 Becker, Marvin B., 81, 160–61n29 belief, freedom of. See tolerance Bell, Daniel, 169n14 Bellah, Robert, 108, 138 Benton Foundation, 137 Berlin, Isaiah, 111, 114, 158–59n3, 168–69n9 Better Together report of the Saguaro Seminar, 134 Beuningen, Coenraad van, 53 Bill of Rights (American), 86, 88, 89, 163n12 Black, Antony, 23, 24 Bodin, Jean, 41 Bowling Alone (Putnam), 109 Index 196 Index Bray, Guy de, 47 Brett, Annabel, 36 Britain. See England British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 100 broadcast radio and television, 99–101, 108, 166n42 Bruni, Leonardo, 40 Buchan, James, 69, 70 bürgerliche Gesellschaft, xvi, 41, 76 Burke, Edmund, 86 Byzantium, hospitals in, 14 Calvinism, 16, 46, 48, 53, 59 Cardin, Benjamin, 175n29 caritas, 13 Carnegie, Andrew, and Carnegie foundations , 102–4, 123, 125, 126, 127, 135, 175n28 Cartesian thought, xv, 47 Castells, Manuel, 119 category mistake, 129 Catholicism, 17, 18, 24, 41, 46, 48 Cato’s Letters (Trenchard and Gordon), 88–89 censorship, 28, 29–30 Center for Deliberative Polling, Stanford University, 177n39 charity and charitable organizations. See nonprofit organizations; philanthropy Charles I (king of England), 37, 67 Charles II (king of England), 81 Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor), 150n13 China, 119, 136, 171n30 Christianity: Anabaptists, 41, 154n20; Arminians, 48, 49, 53; Calvinism, 16, 46, 48, 53, 59; church-state relationship , 19–20, 33–34, 40; Cocceians, 48; in contemporary society, 108; Dutch Republic, religious pluralism in, 46, 48; Gomarists, 48, 49; Luther, Martin, and Lutheranism, 34, 40, 41, 154n20; normative traditions, development of, 33–34, 39–42; philanthropy, development of, 13–18, 59, 79–80, 157n32; Protestant Reformation, 16, 17, 34, 40–42, 45, 48; Remonstrants, 28, 47, 48; Roman Catholicism, 17, 18, 24, 41, 46, 48; Second Great Awakening, 93; Voetians, 48 Churchill, Winston, 25 church-state relationship, 19–20, 33–34, 40 Cicero, 32 Cincinnati, Society of the, 91 civic engagement, encouraging, 138–40 CIVICUS, 141, 146n1, 146n6, 177n42 civil society, ix–x, xiii–xvii; the commons distinguished from, 146n2 (See also the commons); defining concept of, xiv–xv, 1–11; democracy and, 2, 9–11, 27, 148–49n22; organizational infrastructure support, 140–42; philanthropy ’s role in strengthening, 131–33 (See also philanthropy); pluralism and social benefit as keys to, 1–2; seven key elements of, 4–9; as term, 74, 76, 154n1; thick and thin meanings of, 145–46n1; Western tradition, focus on, xiv. See also economics and civil society; government and civil society; historical development of civil society; institutional structures; normative traditions Civil Society Index (CSI), 141 Civil War, American, 94–95, 101 Civil War, English, 28, 29, 37–39, 63, 67 Clinton Foundation, 131 Cocceians, 49 Coke, Sir Edward, 151n24 Colas, Dominique, 7, 39–40, 41, 154n20 Coleman, Thomas, 67 collective action, problem of, 113–14, 115–16 Colledge, Stephen, 67 Collegiants, 53 the common good, 3, 31–35; in American civil society, 84, 85, 90, 92, 101, 104...