Certified Association Executive (CAE)
Exam
Trade Associations - ANS-_________ have companies or businesses as members.
Professional Societies and Affinity Groups - ANS-___________ and _________ have
individuals as members.
Federations - ANS-__________ have associations as members.
The U.S. has more than 23,000 national; more than 116,000 state, local, and regional;
and 1,300 international associations (at the opening of the 21st Century). No other
country has an association sector as active and fully developed as the U.S. - ANS-The
number of associations in the U.S. at the opening of the 21st Century
Members' strong feelings of ownership and involvement in decision making. Members
believe they can make themselves heard and effect change within and through their
associations. - ANS-What makes associations unique?
Historians believe that associations existed in ancient Egypt and China (little
resemblance to today's trade associations). By the 16th Century, organizations had
become to emerge that could be recognized as "true" associations. In the late 19th
century, trade associations began to exhibit some of the negative aspects of the guilds
they had replaced. Monopoly was a common goal among business owners, and their
association's engaged in price fixing, production controls, territorial allocation, and
distribution management. To curb such abuses, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust
Act. - ANS-History of Trade Associations
1890 - ANS-When was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed?
Sherman Antitrust Act - ANS-Passed in Congress to curb abuses by associations. The
court held that an association could provide price information, but only on past
transactions, and that its members could make no agreements to maintain prices based
on such information. Furthermore, associations had to make the statistics they'd
gathered available to nonmembers.
Professional societies can trace their roots back to the late Renaissance, when scientific
societies were formed to collect and disseminate knowledge. The philosophy of
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