The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook Third Edition

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The nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size both domestically and internationally the boundaries between for-profit governmental and charitable organizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic societies alike. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the state of the field. This book now in its third edition brings together leading researcherseconomists historians philosophers political scientists and sociologists along with scholars from communication education law management and policy schoolsto investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy; the politics of the public sphere; governance mission and engagement; access and inclusion; and global perspectives on nonprofit organizations. Across this comprehensive range of topics The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study of civil society.