caa a22 4500 60615258X CHVBK 20210128100549.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-014-9516-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-014-9516-4 Community Service Provision by Political Associations Representing Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Shawn Flanigan, Victor Asal, Mitchell Brown] What factors make it more likely that political associations will engage in community service provision? This article examines the service provision activities of minority-identified political associations in the Middle East prior to the Arab Spring, giving an important view of associational activity during the period leading up to substantial political change in the region. Drawing from two distinct bodies of literature—on nonprofit organizations and on political violence—the paper analyzes organizational level data for more than 100 minority-identified, politically oriented voluntary associations in the Middle East and North Africa during the period from 1980 to 2004. We find that the likelihood of political associations also providing community services aligns more closely to variables found in the political violence literature than the literature on nonprofit organizations, making an important case for more cross-disciplinary analysis when examining associational life in the Middle East and North Africa. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2014 Political associations nationallicence Middle East and North Africa nationallicence Service provision nationallicence Violence nationallicence Flanigan Shawn San Diego State University, San Diego, USA aut Asal Victor University at Albany, Albany, USA aut Brown Mitchell Auburn University, Auburn, USA aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1786-1804 0957-8765 26:5<1786 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9516-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9516-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Flanigan Shawn San Diego State University, San Diego, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Asal Victor University at Albany, Albany, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Mitchell Auburn University, Auburn, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1786-1804 0957-8765 26:5<1786 2015 26 11266