Analyzing the relationship between globalization and cultures is the core objective of this volume. In it leading experts track cultural trends in all regions of the world, covering issues ranging from the role of cultural difference in politics and governance to heritage conservation, artistic expression, and the cultural industries. The book also includes a data section that consolidates the recently commenced but still inchoate work of cultural indicators.
Analyzing the relationship between globalization and cultures is the core objective of this volume. In it leading experts track cultural trends in all...
'What a welcome gift ' John Clark, Project Director, UN Secretary-General's Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations. 'This book truly breaks new ground in the field of civil society studies by introducing an innovative assessment tool which can be of use to practitioners, policy-makers and researchers alike.' Kumi Naidoo, Chief Executive Officer, CIVICUS Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has in recent years emerged as the major force for change in the realms of politics, public policy and society both globally and locally. Yet,...
'What a welcome gift ' John Clark, Project Director, UN Secretary-General's Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations. 'This book truly breaks new ground in...
Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has emerged as the major force for change in the realms of politics, public policy and society both globally and locally. This book provides a framework for the definition, measurement, analysis and interpretation of civil society.
Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has emerged as the major force for change in the re...
This volume addresses the need to revisit the very economic theories that in the past two decades have contributed so much to the development of a concentrated research agenda on nonprofit organizations. Long neglected as a topic of theorizing and empirical investigation by mainstream economics in particular, these initial theories of nonprofit organizations, introduced by Burton Weisbrod (see Chapter 3 by Kingma and Chapter 4 by Slivinsky) and Henry Hansmann (see Chapter 5 by Ortmann and Schlesinger and Chapter 6 by Hansmann) and others in the late 1970sand early 1980s, continue to shape...
This volume addresses the need to revisit the very economic theories that in the past two decades have contributed so much to the development of a con...
Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory, and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.
Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory, and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including h...
This book is the result of case studies conducted as part of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, which focus on the role of philanthropy in the globalization process and in lesser developed economies. Throughout, they emphasize the lessons in innovation that can be taken from them, and together demonstrate that emerging philanthropic institutions can develop their own methods and offer criteria that the Western world might learn from.
This book is the result of case studies conducted as part of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, which focus on the role of philan...
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, "American Foundations," with a comprehensive historical account of what American foundations have done with that independence and power.
While philanthropic foundations play important roles in other parts of the world, the U.S. sector stands out as exceptional. Nowhere...
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundati...
"With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students looking for connecting ideas and additional sources on them. The work brings together the many facets of global studies into a solid reference tool and will help those developing and articulating an ideological perspective." -- Library Journal
The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the...
"With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students look...
Im bisher groten Forschungsprojekt zum deutschen Stiftungswesen wurde erstmals auf Grundlage einer umfangreichen Datenbasis eine Einschatzung der Rollen, Positionierungen und Beitrage deutscher Stiftungen vorgenommen. Der Band fuhrt zunachst in den aktuellen Stand der Stiftungs- und Philanthropieforschung und das Vorgehen der Forschungsgruppe um Helmut K. Anheier ein. Es folgt ein umfassendes empirisches Bild des deutschen Stiftungswesens mit Fokus auf die Bereiche Bildung und Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, Soziales sowie Kunst und Kultur. Im Ergebnis zeichnet sich eine neue,...
Im bisher groten Forschungsprojekt zum deutschen Stiftungswesen wurde erstmals auf Grundlage einer umfangreichen Datenbasis eine Einschatzung der Roll...
Stiftungen bewegen sich mit ihren Zielen zwischen der Bewahrung von Tradition und Kultur, gesellschaftlichem Wandel und Fursorge. Viele Stiftungen sehen sich als eigenstandige innovative Kraft, andere als Forderer der Zivilgesellschaft oder als karitative Einrichtungen. Ersetzen oder erganzen Stiftungen staatliches Handeln? Welche Rollen verfolgen sie und was ist ihr gesellschaftlicher Beitrag? Eine Forschungsgruppe der Hertie School of Governance und des Centre for Social Investment der Universitat Heidelberg um Helmut K. Anheier hat in einem mehrjahrigen Projekt das deutsche Stiftungswesen...
Stiftungen bewegen sich mit ihren Zielen zwischen der Bewahrung von Tradition und Kultur, gesellschaftlichem Wandel und Fursorge. Viele Stiftungen seh...
