The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective: Studies in Comparative Culture and Policy (Yale Studies on Non-Profit Organizations)

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. Produced and edited under the auspices of the Yale University Programs on Nonprofit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, this new series investigates the implications of current research in nonprofit studies for public policy. Each volume is interdisciplinary in approach, accessible to the interested layperson, and required reading for everyone who works with or for nonprofit organizations. This is a collection of mostly original essays about the current picture of the international non-profit sector. It deals with the consequences of institutional choice in both industrialized and less-developed countries.