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Membership and Rights of Members. Admission to an association is a matter within the complete and exclusive purview of the association. [i] An association has the right to select its members. [ii] Membership in an association is not a constitutional right, but simply a privilege.
- Power Of Organization To Suspend Or Expel Members
Voluntary associations have wide scope in defining the...
- Dues
An individual’s membership with an organization continues...
- Meetings
The meetings of an association should be conducted in...
- Discrimination
Rotary Club of Duarte, 481 U.S. 537 (U.S. 1987), the court...
- Power Of Organization To Suspend Or Expel Members
1. : a reporter assigned usually to gather information. 2. : an assistant who performs various subordinate tasks (such as gathering information or running errands) Examples of legman in a Sentence.
- Theories About Membership Associations
- Incidence, Prevalence, and Life Cycle of Mas in Geographic Territories
- Internal Structure and Processes in Mas
- Impact of Mas
- Deviance and Misconduct in and by Mas
- Individual Involvement in National Mas
For over a century, many sociologists have done research and created theory about MAs, as indicated by Knoke (1986), Smith and Freedman (1972), and Smith (1975, 2000). But academic scholars from many other disciplines and fields have also been studying MAs. CS/NPS Studies began as an organized field in 1971 with ARNOVA, as described by Smith (2003)...
Introduction
There are three main subtopics to this general topic: (1) the scope of MA activity in the world; (2) the formation of MAs and the prevalence of MAs and MA memberships; and (3) comparative cross-national research and theories on MA prevalence.
Scope of MA Activity in the World Today
Recent data from four major multinational studies show that MAs now exist in every nation surveyed so far (86 nations), according to Howard and Gilbert (2008), Norris (2002: 150–151), Salamon et al. (2004: 91), and van Deth (2008: 221–223). Other one-nation research by many scholars extends the direct research data showing positive (nonzero) prevalence of MAs to probably 150+ contemporary nations. If INGO membership is included, then virtually all of the world’s 300+ nations now have MAs of o...
Formation and Prevalence of MAs and MA Memberships
In the United States, Gamm and Putnam (1999) show that local MAs (GAs) in a broad sample of 26 towns and cities of varying sizes grew generally in numbers from 1840–1940. Number of MAs per-thousand-population (as listed in City Directories) peaked in 1910 at about 5.4, and then declined somewhat through 1940, ending at about 4. Putnam (2000: 54) has shown that membership in a variety of mainstream, American, national MAs of many types grew markedly from 1900–1960 (with a major dip in the Grea...
This aspect of MAs has received relatively little empirical inquiry, especially for substantial samples of MAs generally, or national MAs specifically, in a given nation, let alone in cross-national comparative research. In the United States, several studies have used directories of national MAs as data sources for sampling over the past 50 years.
Most studies of MA impact have been done on GAs, not on national MAs. A summary of the results of such studies is given in Smith (2000: 196–206). A more recent version is given in the “Grassroots Associations” entry in this Encyclopedia. Quantitative studies of the impact of national MAs in general are very rare. There have been some important gene...
Deviance and misconduct of all kinds in and by CS/NPS groups (which Smith 2008a, terms the “Dark Side” of the CS/NPS) is a very understudied area by academic scholars in the CS/NPS Studies field, as shown by Smith (2008a,b). This neglect is no less true with regard to MAs, including national MAs, than for other kinds of CS/NPS groups and organizati...
The analytical topic area of involvement in MAs has received the most extensive research of all aspects of MAs, with many thousands of articles and books dealing with it worldwide. Smith (1975, 1994, forthcoming) has reviewed this literature various times, especially for North America. His interdisciplinary, general theory of MA involvement (includ...
- David Horton Smith
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun legman. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
legmen. 3 meanings: → See legman mainly US and Canadian 1. a newsman who reports on news stories from the scene of action or original.... Click for more definitions.
Legman definition: a person employed to transact business outside an office, especially on behalf of one whose responsibilities require presence in the office.. See examples of LEGMAN used in a sentence.
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noun Word forms: plural ˈlegˌmen (ˈlɛgˌmɛn ) 1. a news reporter who gathers information at the scene of events or at various sources, usually transmitting it to an office or news room for editing. 2. a person who runs errands or gathers information to assist someone in an office.
