Is bureaucratic management replacing democracy?

“Membership-based organizations like the YMCA and United Methodist Women once functioned as laboratories for democracy, with local chapters sending delegates as representatives to assemblies at the regional and national level. What’s more, such associations tended to link members of disparate social classes (even as they remained racially segregated). Now a greater number of associations are dedicated to various kinds of advocacy, and they’re run by college-educated professionals.” Read more from Philanthropy Daily here.

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Source: Philanthropy Daily