TY - BOOK AU - Ahlquist,John S. AU - Clayton,Amanda B. AU - Levi,Margaret TI - In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism SN - 9780691158563 AV - HD8031 .A45 2017 U1 - 322.2 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Labor unions KW - Political activity KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) KW - bisacsh KW - ILWU leaders KW - ILWU members KW - International Brotherhood of Teamsters KW - International Longshore and Warehouse Union KW - International Longshoremen's Association KW - Maritime Union of Australia KW - Waterside Workers' Federation KW - activist unions KW - aggregate behavior KW - altruism KW - business unions KW - cooperation KW - economic opportunities KW - economism KW - equilibrium selection KW - ethnic divisions KW - governance arrangements KW - governance equilibrium KW - governance KW - ill-formed beliefs KW - individual members KW - industrial efficacy KW - information acquisition KW - internal heterogeneity KW - international trade KW - labor organization KW - labor unions KW - leadership rents KW - members KW - membership organizations KW - national-level organizations KW - nationalist groups KW - organization governance KW - organizational governance KW - organizational leaders KW - organizational leadership KW - organizational norms KW - political activism KW - political beliefs KW - political causes KW - political commitments KW - political mobilization KW - political opinions KW - religious divisions KW - selective incentives KW - self-selection KW - social justice KW - social networks KW - solidarity KW - state-building KW - trade liberalization KW - trade restrictions KW - union activities KW - union activity KW - union leaders KW - union KW - unions KW - volunteering N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Beyond Economism --; Chapter 2. Building an Encompassing Community of Fate and Winning Consent --; Chapter 3. Pork, Perks, and Predation --; Chapter 4. An Injury to Anyone Is an Injury to All --; Chapter 5. Managing Heterogeneity --; Chapter 6. Provoking Preferences --; Chapter 7. Political Attitudes and Behavior among ILWU Members --; Chapter 8. Signaling Solidarity? --; Chapter 9. Conclusions and Implications --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi document eighty years of such activism by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the United States and the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia. They systematically compare the ILWU and WWF to the Teamsters and the International Longshoremen's Association, two American transport industry labor unions that actively discouraged the pursuit of political causes unrelated to their own economic interests. Drawing on a wealth of original data, Ahlquist and Levi show how activist organizations can profoundly transform the views of members about their political efficacy and the collective actions they are willing to contemplate. They find that leaders who ask for support of projects without obvious material benefits must first demonstrate their ability to deliver the goods and services members expect. These leaders must also build governance institutions that coordinate expectations about their objectives and the behavior of members. In the Interest of Others reveals how activist labor unions expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend the private interests of individual members. Ahlquist and Levi then extend this logic to other membership organizations, including religious groups, political parties, and the state itself UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848652?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400848652 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400848652.jpg ER -