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  • Explaining Civil Society Development

    A Social Origins Approach

    by Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock ...
    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 ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The State of Nonprofit America

    by Lester M Salamon ...
    Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffeted by four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among these impulses. Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynamics thus becomes central to understanding the future of particular ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Leverage for Good

    An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment

    by Lester M. Salamon ...
    With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation ballooning daily, new models for financing social and environmental objectives are urgently needed. Fortunately, a revolution is underway in the instruments and institutions available to meet this need. Loans, loan guarantees, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Resilient Sector Revisited

    The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

    by Lester M Salamon ...
    Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions being buffeted by a withering set of challenges, yet still finding ways to survive and prosper. These ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Illusion Of Presidential Government

    by Hugh Heclo, Lester M Salamon ...
    "Presidential government is an illusion. It is an image that misleads presidents no less than the media and the American public." Thus begins this realistic look at the presidency, in which nine leading presidential scholars examine how and why we are under the illusion of presidential government and ask such questions as: What is the president's actual role? What has happened to his traditional ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe

    Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities

    by Bernard Enjolras, Lester M. Salamon, Karl Henrik Sivesind, Annette Zimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy

    Edited by Henry Peter, Giedre Lideikyte Huber ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addressed from a ... Read more

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  • The Wage Standard

    What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It

    by Arindrajit Dube ...
    “The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics.How did the labor market stop working for so many in the workforce? Why did wages at the bottom and in the middle of the pay scale fail to keep up with a growing economy ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • It's Even Worse Than It Looks

    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein ...
    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Working in the Service Sector

    A Tale from Different Worlds

    Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Steffen Lehndorff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the ... Read more

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