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Theory, Management, Policy
In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and exp...
Recently the topic of civil society has generated a wave of interest, and a wealth of new information. Until now no publication has attempted to organ...
This book examines four aspects of organisational failure - organisational, political, cognitive and structural. Using real-life examples, the contrib...
Financial and Fiscal Governance
'Governance Challenges and Innovations' examines the state of governance with a special focus on financial and fiscal governance in the wake of the cr...
An Introduction
This text is the first to dedicate itself to the nonprofit sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of nonprofit and voluntary organizations, nong...
A Comparative Analysis
Recent years have witnessed a significant upsurge of organized private, nonprofit activity in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and with...
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Measurement, Evaluation, Policy
Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has in recent years emerged as the major force for ...
A Cross-national Analysis
The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the world. This text seeks to provide a definition and a...
A New Global Force
An Overview
Chapter 6: Country profiles....
Roles and Contributions
Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its foundations with ...
The war in Iraq brought global politics into the living rooms of ordinary people around the world in 2003-4. This defining event, which influenced the...
This guide to civil society provides a quick and easy reference to the key people, concepts and organizations of the third sector. It contains approxi...
Strategies for Impact
Philanthropic foundations play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems. Based on case studies from Ger...
Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their internat...
Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are vitally important institutions of modern society, yet in recent years, they've faced new threats such as decli...
Between State, Economy, and Society
This text offers an overview of the size, scope, structure, historical development and current policy environment of the German nonprofit sector....
The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations...
Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-nationally
The Politics of Welfare Reform - East and West
East-Central Europe is about to bring its welfare reforms to the European Union. Nevertheless, in the course of the Accession, one could hardly fix th...
Initial Comparisons
The East German Nonprofit Sector Six Years After Unification
A Comparative Perspective
The Question of Definitions
Comparative Perspectives
The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies t...
The East German Third Sector Ten Years After Unification
A Summary
Five Theses
Initial Estimates
On nonprofit organizations...
An Exploratory Study of International Giving in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan
"This fifth Global Civil Society Yearbook continues the intellectual shaping of an emerging global civil society. As the Global Call for Action on Pov...
Business Behavior and Strategies in Informal Sector Economies
Provides an alternative theory that conceptualizes the nonprofit sector in the broader context of the development of social, political and economic in...
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properti...