Civic and political organizations play a significant role in democracy and have been a part of American life for centuries. Nonetheless, there has been a dramatic change in the new civic world from the old ones. In the article “Associations Without Members” by Theda Skocpol, the author examines the shifting patterns of these interest groups and the impacts it has on American. According to the author, the old civic world centered in locally rooted and active membership associations, and she refers to the civic world that we are living in today as memberless due to the fact that only wealthy or highly educated people can be a part of the groups. Moreover, some of them are drawn into these associations or projects due to their work. The old membership
