The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective: Studies in Comparative Culture and Policy

ISBN-13: 9780195056297 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 400 str.

Estelle James; Kingman Brewster;Estelle James

Opis

Arising as a market-induced improvement on existing governmental services and competing with the government for customers and resources, nonprofit organizations are a relatively unexplored area of public policy. This collection of essays, written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, adds new dimensions to the theory of nonprofit organizations, and describes the public policies regarding nonprofit organizations that do or should exist in both developing and developed countries. The contributors consider why governments subsidize such organizations, the problems such subsidies create, and the role played, from an international perspective, by religion and other ideological institutions in the founding and managing of nonprofit services.

Recenzje

'This is a book made of very diverse material ... To assemble all this in one book requires courage, and Professor James shows she has it. The result is rewarding. I have found it beyond my capabilities to give a decent account of the wealth of case studies reported in the 376 pages of the book. The search for unity is irresistibly tempting, but the richness of diversity makes fascinating reading.' Voluntas, November 1990