Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach by Lester M. Sal

The Nile on eBay   Explaining Civil Society Development by Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock

Combining 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.

FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

The civil society sector-made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize-has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project's data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field's currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development.Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector's ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining 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.

Author Biography

Lester M. Salamon is a professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the director of the Center for Civil Society Studies, a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies-Bologna Institute, and the scientific director of the International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. He is the author of The Resilient Sector Revisited: The New Challenge to Nonprofit America and many other books. S. Wojciech Sokolowski is a senior research associate at the Center for Civil Society Studies. He is the author of Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland. Megan A. Haddock is the international research projects manager for the Center for Civil Society Studies. She is the coauthor of the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments1. Introduction, by Lester M. SalamonPart One by Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan A. Haddock2. What Is to Be Explained?3. Explaining Civil Society Development I4. Explaining Civil Society Development II5. Testing the Social Origins Theory6. Conclusion and ImplicationsPart Two7. Switzerland, by Bernd Helmig, Markus Gmur, Georg von Schnurbein, Bernard Degen, Michael Nollert, and Christoph Baerlocher8. New Zealand9. Australia10. The Netherlands11. Chile, by Ignacio Irarrazaval12. Austria, by Michaela Neumayr, Ulrike Schneider, Michael Meyer, and Astrid Pennerstorfer13. Denmark, by Thomas P. Boje, Bjarne Ibsen, Torben Fridberg, and Ulla Habermann14. Russia, by Irina Mersianova and Olga Kononykhina15. Mexico, by Jorge V. Villalobos, Lorena Cortes Vazquez, and Cynthia Martinez16. Portugal, by Raquel Campos FrancoAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyAbout the AuthorsList of ContributorsCore Staff, Local Associates, Advisors, and Sponsors, 1991–2016Index

Review

Provides 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, Voluntas

Promotional

In its macro-level focus and mixture of historical and empirical explanation, this exciting book offers a theoretical approach to the study of civil society that should be useful and appealing to scholars. Logically presented and well written, it will not only lead to future study but can also be used in foundational courses on the nonprofit sector. -- Femida Handy, coauthor of Philanthropy in India: Promise to Practice

Long Description

The civil society sector--made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize--has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project's data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field's currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development. Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector's ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining 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.

Review Text

""This 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.""

Review Quote

"This 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."

Promotional "Headline"

How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally.

Details ISBN1421422980 Author Megan A. Haddock Pages 344 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 1421422980 ISBN-13 9781421422985 Format Hardcover Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle A Social Origins Approach Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 338.7 Illustrations 26 Line drawings, black and white Media Book Short Title Explaining Civil Society Development Language English NZ Release Date 2017-11-10 US Release Date 2017-11-10 Publication Date 2017-11-10 UK Release Date 2017-11-10 Alternative 9781421422992 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-09-14 We've got this

At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love!

TheNile_Item_ID:136586317;