Club Movement Research Articles

Education and Reform in Buffalo Women's Clubs, 1876-1914

Social reform and education of self and others go hand in hand in Buffalo's women's club movement.

Why Amateur Party Politics has Withered Away: The Club Movement, Party Reform and the Decline of American Party Organizations*

ABSTRACTThis article is concerned with the decline of American party organizations and, in particular, with the role of amateur (issue‐oriented) activists in contributing to this. It focuses on two main problems. The first is the relevance of the post‐1968 Democratic party reforms in destroying the role of party in presidential nominations. Contrary to a widely held view, it is argued that a decentralized system of nomination would have emerged in an ‘unreformed’ party. Secondly, the decline of the Democratic club movement is examined. It is argued that the clubs did not develop as major institutions within the party, and that they were an appropriate form of organization for liberals in only very restricted circumstances. The example of Denver is used to illustrate this argument. The decline of the clubs in those parts of America where they had become established is traced to one of three possible causes, each of which would be a sufficient condition for the collapse of the club movement. In conclusion it is argued that the clubs were a transitory form of political organization, linking the period of political machines with that of candidate‐centred politics. Rather than destroying the parties, if anything, they served in the 1950s and early 1960s to diffuse potential anti‐partyism.

Political Stability & Urban Reform Club Activism

Few political constructs have evoked more widespread discussion and application than James Q. Wilson's concept of the "Amateur Democrat." Using a sample of reform club activists in Chicago the authors critically examine the validity of the concept itself as well as the means by which Chicago's reform club movement has managed to maintain and enhance its organizational interests in an environment of increasingly entrenched machine politics. They find that Wilson's criteria are in need of modification. As for organizational motivations and development, they conclude that the best explanation for people's joining reform clubs can be provided in terms of the "logic of utility."

Effect of New York's Elite Athletic Clubs on American Amateur Athletic Governance—1870–1915

Abstract Occurring during one of the most important periods in American sport, 1865–1915, the athletic club movement accounted for much of the increased development and organization of the amateur athletic movement. During the early history of the governance of amateur athletics a few sporting clubs from New York had it within their power to make, break, or reorganize the national amateur athletic governing bodies. During this period of time, from 1870–1890 amateur sport was not truly ruled by a national body. In the next 25 years the power of the New York clubs declined. Much to the credit of the large clubs and their representatives, an atmosphere was created in which athletics could thrive. These clubs gained a respectability for sport which otherwise may never have been acquired. Without the organizational and promotional genius of the early leaders, amateur sport may not have reached the heights that were achieved during this as well as later time periods.

Book Reviews

Book review in this ArticleThe Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600–1700). [Volume II of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.] By Jaroslav Pelikan.A History of Medieval Spain. By Joseph F. O'Callaghan.Mysticism and Dissent. Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth Century. By Stephen E. Ozment.The King's Parliament of England. By George O. Sayles.Reform and Renewal. Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. By G. R. Elton.“No Standing Armies!” The Antiarmy Ideology in Seventeenth‐Century England. By Lois G. Schwoerer.Northumberland: The Political Career of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland. By Barrett L. Beer.Newcastle, A Duke without Money: Thomas Pelham‐Holles, 1693–1768. By Ray A. Kelch.The Duke of Newcastle. By Reed Browning.Bolingbroke and Harley. By Sheila Biddle.The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I. [Volume III of the Ulster‐Scot Historical Series.] By M. Perceval‐Maxwell.Cruel Habitations: A History of Working‐Class Housing, 1780–1918. By Enid Gauldie.Multi‐Storey Living: The British Working Class Experience. Edited by Anthony Sutcliffe.Mugwumps, Morals & Politics, 1884–1920. By Gerald W. McFarland.Labour in Irish Politics, 1890–1930: The Irish Labour Movement in an Age of Revolution. By Arthur Mitchell.Great Britain and the Caribbean, 1901–1913: A Study in Anglo‐American Relations. By Warren G. Kneer.From Poor Law to Welfare State. By Walter I. Trattner.Hankey: Man of Secrets. Volume II, 1919–1931. By Stephen W. Roskill.British Politics and Government, 1951–1970. A Study of an Affluent Society. By Mary Proudfoot.The Dutch in America, 1609–1974. By Gerald F. De Jong.Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions. By George Dargo.The United States, 1789–1890. By William R. Brock.Patrician in Politics: Daniel Dewey Barnard of New York. By Sherry Penney.A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863–1869. By Michael Les Benedict.Downriver: Orrin H. Ingram and the Empire Lumber Company. By Charles E. Twining.Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. By Robert M. Cover.Mark Twain and the South. By Arthur G. Pettit.Travel on Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828–1860. By Eugene Alvarez.History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. By Keith L. Bryant. Jr.Custer and the Epic of Defeat. By Bruce A. Rosenberg.Black Protest: Issues and Tactics. [Contributions in American Studies, no. 14.] By Robert C. Dick.The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One‐Party South, 1880–1910. By J. Morgan Kousser.Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self‐Determination, 1928–1973. By Margaret Szasz.Against the Specter of a Dragon: The Campaign for American Military Preparedness, 1914–1917. [Contributions in Military History, no. 7.] By John Patrick Finnegan.The Nazi Movement in the United States, 1924–1941. By Sander A. Diamond.Profiles of Creative Political Leaders: American Statesmen Who Were Great Writers. By Starr Jenkins.Eisenhower: Portrait of the Hero. By Peter Lyon.The John Doe Associates: Backdoor Diplomacy for Peace, 1941. By R. J. C. Butow.The Atomic Energy Commission. By Corbin Allardice and Edward R. Trapnell. [Praeger Library of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies.]The Institute of Pacific Relations: Asian Scholars and American Politics. By John N. Thomas.The United States and Latin America: An Historical Analysis of Inter‐American Relations. By Gordon Connell‐Smith.The Spanish‐American Revolutions, 1808–1826, A unified account of the revolutions that swept over South and Central America in the early nineteenth century. By John Lynch.From Cortés to Castro: An Introduction to the History of Latin America 1492–1973. By Simon Collier.Mallet du Pan (1749–1800): A Career in Political Journalism. By Frances Acomb.Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848. By Peter H. Amann.Alexandre Ribot: Odyssey of a Liberal in the Third Republic. By Martin E. Schmidt.A Certain Eventuality: Britain and the Fall of France. By P. M. H. Bell.The French Against the French, Collaboration and Resistance. By Milton Dank.French Communism, 1920–1972. By Ronald Tiersky.Modern Turkey. By Geoffrey Lewis.Modern Turkey. By Geoffrey Lewis.The Agony of a Neutral: La Division Azul. By Raymond L. Proctor.The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils, 1905–1921. By Oskar Anweiler. Translated from the German by Ruth Hein.From Bassermann to Bebel: The Grand Bloc's Quest for Reform in the Kaiserreich, 1900–1914. By Beverly Heckart.The Hundred Days to Hitler. By Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel.The Mythical World of Nazi War Propaganda, 1939–1945. By Jay W. Baird.Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan. By David Anson Titus.The Politics of Massacre: Political Processes in South Vietnam. By Charles A. Joiner.

Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848, by Peter H. Amann

"Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848, by Peter H. Amann." Canadian Journal of History, 11(1), pp. 104–105

Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848

Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848

The Club Phenomenon in France

Among the most interesting facets of French politics under the Fifth Republic has been the appearance of a wave of political clubs. Such clubs were virtually nonexistent during the Fourth Republic. Yet by the mid-1960s they were not only numerous, but they wielded important influence in French politics. Although these clubs of the Fifth Republic drew upon the club traditions of revolutionary eras, they were generally considered to be new forces capable of regenerating the political parties that had been discredited by the failure of the Fourth Republic.1 The clubs appeared to be something different on the political scene, free from the sectarian divisions that have plagued the French party system. Indeed, one of the goals of the leaders of the club movement was to unify the divided and outmoded party structures of the democratic Left. Within a few years of their involvement in active politics, however, the clubs assumed the same divided character, sectarianism, and outmoded political style that characterizes the party system. This transformation of the club movement from forces nouvelles, advocating reform of the party system, into distinct political forces contributing to the very evils that they had earlier sought to overcome illustrates the difficulty of accomplishing fundamental reform of the structures and practices of the French Left.

The Block Club Movement in Chicago

The Block Club Movement in Chicago

The In-And-About Club Movement

The In-And-About Club Movement

The Political Pattern of Some Women's Organizations

THE woman's club movement of the present is one of the effects of a leisure unknown before modern technology wrought its transformations and woman gained occupational, political, and cultural freedom. It is part of the struggle of that sex to acquire a place in activities not centered entirely in homemaking. Since the 1860's it mirrors woman's new sphere of influence and bears testimony to an everwidening horizon of interest.

The Women's Club Movement

The Women's Club Movement

The Organized Work of Women in One State

WHEN MARY Wollenstonecraft shocked conservative England in 1792 with her Vindication of the Rights of Women, Rousseau in France with his ideas of social equality had already paved the way for the be? lief in the abstract rights of human beings, Tom Paine had stirred the world by championing the cause of individual freedom, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Ameri? can Declaration of Independence had established the rights of the individual. Naturally upon a world waking up to the rights of mankind, the legal and economic position of women became a burning question. This broadening of human sympathy, this emancipation from the tyranny of tradition opened up a new world to women who had suffered from the oppression of custom. Edu? cational opportunities were demanded and re? ceived by women who realized that knowledge is power. The opportunity came to them through the change in the world's point of view and they were not slow to grasp it. The world became a place of life and enjoyment for them, while be? fore it had been a place of retirement from all matters of public concern. Since the days of Mary Wollenstonecraft great changes have taken place and a woman has only to prove her ability to be recognized. Limitations of sex are no longer an insuperable barrier to progress. The one powerful agency through which a woman has been able to express her individuality is through the woman's club movement. It came into existence in America at the same time as the growth of the idea of individual freedom. As early as the 18th century women all over the country were in the habit of gathering to? gether for purposes of sewing and reading, as well as for attending to philanthropic and church affairs. But it was not until the 19th century that the woman's club movement was a recog? nized force.

Why Should Teachers Actively Participate in the Boys' and Girls' Achievement Club Movement?

Why Should Teachers Actively Participate in the Boys' and Girls' Achievement Club Movement?

The Next Step in the Boys' and Girls' Club Movement

The Next Step in the Boys' and Girls' Club Movement

The Meaning of the Woman's Club Movement

The Meaning of the Woman's Club Movement

The Club Movement

The Club Movement

The Club Movement

The Club Movement