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SUBMITTER: Heylen F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7679303 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heylen Frederik F Willems Evelien E Beyers Jan J
Voluntas : international journal of voluntary and nonprofit organizations 20200324 6
While many scholars have postulated the decline of membership influence as an important consequence of the professionalisation of civil society organisations (CSOs), other analysts have argued that traditional membership-driven CSOs are resilient and that hiring professionals does not necessarily diminish membership influence. This study sheds light on this issue by analysing membership influence in a representative sample of approximately 2000 CSOs from five European countries and the European ...[more]