Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach

by Lester M Salamon, S Wojciech Sokolowski, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421422980
• ISBN13: 9781421422985
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"