How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century | AshCast by Harvard University published on 2014-10-20T14:58:07Z Hahrie Han, Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College Sarah Hodgdon, National Program Director, Sierra Club Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, and Archon Fung (Moderator), Academic Dean and Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship About the Event Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? In this book talk, Hahrie Han will describe how she used in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments to compare organizations with strong records of engaging people in health and environmental politics to those with weaker records. To build power, she finds, civic associations need quality and quantity (or depth and breadth) of activism. They need lots of people to take action and also a cadre of leaders to develop and execute that activity. Yet, models for how to develop activists and leaders are not necessarily transparent. How can civic associations build the power they want and support a healthy democracy? How do the most active associations blend mobilizing and organizing to transform their members' motivations and capacities for involvement? Genre harvard