Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development
Author: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 022642636X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes bibliographic references and index.
Author: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 022642636X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes bibliographic references and index.
Author: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 022642653X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estimated that eighty percent of people live in countries that do not allow unfettered access. Why have some countries disallow the formation of organizations as part of their economic and political system? The contributions to Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development seek to answer this question through an exploration of how developing nations throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, made the transition to allowing their citizens the right to form organizations. The transition, contributors show, was not an easy one. Neither political changes brought about by revolution nor subsequent economic growth led directly to open access. In fact, initial patterns of change were in the opposite direction, as political coalitions restricted access to specific organizations for the purpose of maintaining political control. Ultimately, however, it became clear that these restrictions threatened the foundation of social and political order. Tracing the path of these modern civil societies, Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development is an invaluable contribution to all interested in today’s developing countries and the challenges they face in developing this organizational capacity.
Author: Lester M. Salamon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1421422999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally. The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project’s data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field’s currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development. Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector’s ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining solid data and analytical clarity, this pioneering volume offers a critically needed lens for viewing the evolution of civil society and the nonprofit sector throughout the world.
Author: Jude Howell
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781588260956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Setting out to explore critically the way civil society has entered development thinking, policy and practice as a paradigmatic concept of the 21st century, Howell (development studies, U. of Sussex) and Pearce (Latin American politics, U. of Bradford) trace the historical path leading to the encounter between the ideas of development and civil society in the late 1980s and how donors have translated these into development policy an programs. They find that there are competing normative visions, which have deep roots in Western European political thought, about the role of civil society in relation to the state and market both among donors and within the societies where donors are operating. This leads to donors playing a major role in shaping the character of service provision. They also argue that their study exposes the hitherto unexplored power of the market, as opposed to solely the state, to distort donor programs. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Benjamin Read
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0804782032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations of state corporatism. Roots of the State examines neighborhood associations in Beijing and Taipei that occupy a unique space that exists between these concepts. Benjamin L. Read views the work of the neighborhood associations he studies as a form of "administrative grassroots engagement." States sponsor networks of organizations at the most local of levels, and the networks facilitate governance and policing by building personal relationships with members of society. Association leaders serve as the state's designated liaisons within the neighborhood and perform administrative duties covering a wide range of government programs, from welfare to political surveillance. These partly state-controlled entities also provide a range of services to their constituents. Neighborhood associations, as institutions initially created to control societies, may underpin a repressive regime such as China's, but they also can evolve to empower societies, as in Taiwan. This book engages broad and much-discussed questions about governance and political participation in both authoritarian and democratic regimes.
Author: Joanna Pares Hoare
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-04-19
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9004461396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan draws on feminist critiques and ethnographic data to interrogate how development has been implemented in Kyrgyzstan since 1991.
Author: Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009-03-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0791494039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
Author: R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-06-13
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 0191563390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions draws together a galaxy of distinguished contributors drawn from leading universities across the world. Authoritative reviews of the literature and assessments of future research directions will help to set the research agenda for the next decade.
Author: Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1108427782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.