PREVIOUS ARTICLE ALL CONTENTS Next ARTICLE

Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-Based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation, Kathleen Staudt

Reviewed by Robert M. Ceresa

BUY

 

Kathleen Staudt offers interesting analytical insight to tell the story of broad-based community organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation (the Texas IAF). Specifically, Staudt examines Texas IAF organizations in Dallas, Austin, El Paso, and Lubbock (p. 2). The ability of Texas IAF affiliates to meet the internal challenges of or for organizations, given the external realities of politics in the world at large outside of community organizing, in Texas and beyond, is the subject matter Staudt engages. The external realities of politics raise questions about community organizing’s long-term prospects, Staudt points out. The interest in the Texas IAF is important, nevertheless, Staudt says, because of the people the network works with and represents (people of Mexican descent and others in Texas), whose numbers are growing.

The use of organizations theory focusing on internal business or organizational practices in non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs and non-profits) is the analytical insight Staudt offers. The literature can help people know how to hold the NGOs and non-profits that they affiliate with accountable (p. 8). The literature helps people know how to deal with the contradictions there are between theory and practice of and in organizations, that is how theory and practice often do not line up. Organizat

To continue reading, see options above.

About PSQ's Editor

ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO

Full Access

Join the Academy of Political Science and automatically receive Political Science Quarterly.

CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Academy Forum | The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War
January 9, 2025
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. ET
WEBINAR

MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT VIEW ALL EVENTS

Editor’s spotlight

Virtual Issue

Introduction: Black Power and the Civil Rights Agendas of Charles V. Hamilton
Marylena Mantas and Robert Y. Shapiro

MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC

Search the Archives

Publishing since 1886, PSQ is the most widely read and accessible scholarly journal with distinguished contributors such as: Lisa Anderson, Robert A. Dahl, Samuel P. Huntington, Robert Jervis, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Theda Skocpol, Woodrow Wilson

view additional issues

Most read

Articles | Book reviews

Understanding the Bush Doctrine
Robert Jervis

The Study of Administration
Woodrow Wilson

Notes on Roosevelt's "Quarantine" Speech
Dorothy Borg

view all

New APS Book

Political Conflict in American Politics   POLITICAL CONFLICT IN AMERICAN POLITICS

About US

Academy of Political Science

The Academy of Political Science, promotes objective, scholarly analyses of political, social, and economic issues. Through its conferences and publications APS provides analysis and insight into both domestic and foreign policy issues.

Political Science Quarterly

With neither an ideological nor a partisan bias, PSQ looks at facts and analyzes data objectively to help readers understand what is really going on in national and world affairs.

Stay Connected

newsstand locator
About APS