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Explaining Civil Society Development : A Social Origins Approach


By LESTER M. SALAMON (Author), S. WOJCIECH SOKOLOWSKI (Author), MEGAN A. HADDOCK (Author)
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Price : $64.95  $51.96
ISBN : 9781421422985  
Page : 321
Year of Publication : 2017    Edition : 1
Publisher : JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Subject : HUMANITIES



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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.

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.

Content :

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction:The Puzzle of Civil Society Development

Lester M. Salamon

PART ONE: SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan A. Haddock

2. What Is to Be Explained? Variations in Civil Society Development

3. Explaining Civil Society Development I: Preference and Sentiment Theories

4. Explaining Civil Society Development II: The Social Origins Theory

5. Testing the Social Origins Theory of Civil Society Development

6. Conclusion and Implications

PART TWO: FURTHER DETAIL-TEN "NEW" OR NEWLY UPDATED COUNTRIES

Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan A. Haddock and Associates

7. Switzerland: A Liberal Outlier for Europe

8. New Zealand: An Unusual Liberal Model

9. Australia: A Liberal Model in Spite of Itself

10. The Netherlands: A Classic Welfare Partnership Model

11. Chile: A Latin Welfare Partnership Model

12. Austria: A Dualistic Pattern of Civil Society Development

13. Denmark: A Social Democratic Pattern with a Twist

14. Russia: A Classic Statist Model

15. Mexico: A Persistent Statist Pattern

16. Portugal: In Transition form Statist to Welfare Partnership

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

About the Authors

List of Contributors

Core Staff, Local Associates, Advisors, and Sponsors

Index

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