Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
Product DescriptionGlobal Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector provides a comprehensive country-by-country analysis of the scope, size, composition, and financing of the nonprofit sector in twenty-two countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with new data on nonprofit employment, volunteering, expenditures, and revenues. In addition, it provides a comparative [...]
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad
Product DescriptionThe essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; to advance the “truth and reconciliation” process in South Africa and [...]
The Israeli Third Sector: Between Welfare State and Civil Society
Product DescriptionThe Nonprofit Sector in Israel has recently come into prominence because of its multiple societal functions, which include its central role in the development and maintenance of Israel’s Welfare State and its contribution to the building of its civil society. Both of these have major social, economic and political implications, and impact the building [...]