Description
Book SynopsisCombining solid data and analytical clarity, this pioneering volume offers a critically needed lens for viewing the evolution of civil society and the nonprofit sector throughout the world.
Trade ReviewProvides an excellent overview of dominant nonprofit theories, and it would be extremely useful for those of us teaching introductory courses on nonprofit organizations . . . Hopkins scholars have demonstrated that some sort of civil society sector exists in every country.
—Carl Milofsky, Bucknell University,
American Journal of SociologyThis volume is aimed at civil society researchers, scholars, and doctoral students. Interdisciplinary programs will find it of particular interest, as the social origins theory encompasses concepts from both social science and the humanities . . .
Explaining Civil Society Development challenges the reader to think deeply about the context of power and how it shapes—for better or worse—the civil society sector in our world, now, and in the future.
—Kathi Badertscher, Indiana University,
VoluntasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction, by Lester M. Salamon
Part One by Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan A. Haddock
2. What Is to Be Explained?
3. Explaining Civil Society Development I
4. Explaining Civil Society Development II
5. Testing the Social Origins Theory
6. Conclusion and Implications
Part Two
7. Switzerland, by Bernd Helmig, Markus Gmur, Georg von Schnurbein, Bernard Degen, Michael Nollert, and Christoph Baerlocher
8. New Zealand
9. Australia
10. The Netherlands
11. Chile, by Ignacio Irarrazaval
12. Austria, by Michaela Neumayr, Ulrike Schneider, Michael Meyer, and Astrid Pennerstorfer
13. Denmark, by Thomas P. Boje, Bjarne Ibsen, Torben Fridberg, and Ulla Habermann
14. Russia, by Irina Mersianova and Olga Kononykhina
15. Mexico, by Jorge V. Villalobos, Lorena Cortes Vazquez, and Cynthia Martinez
16. Portugal, by Raquel Campos Franco
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
About the Authors
List of Contributors
Core Staff, Local Associates, Advisors, and Sponsors, 1991–2016
Index
