Governments around the world are turning over more of their
services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and
pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But can
nonprofits provide more and higher-quality services than
governments or for-profit businesses? Will nonprofits really
increase social connectedness and civic engagement? This book, a
sequel to Walter W. Powell's widely acclaimed The Nonprofit Sector:
A Research Handbook, brings together an original collection of
writings that explore the nature of the "public good" and how
private nonprofit organizations relate to it.
The contributors to this book -- eminent sociologists, political
scientists, management scholars, historians, and economists --
examine the nonprofit sector through a variety of theoretical and
methodological lenses. They consider the tensions between the
provision of public goods and the interests of members and donors
in nonprofit organizations. They contrast religious and secular
nonprofits, as well as private and nonprofit provision of child
care, mental health services, and health care. And they explore the
growing role of nonprofits in the United States, France, Germany,
and Eastern Europe, the contribution of nonprofits to economic
development, and the forms and strategies of private action.
"This volume addresses an extremely important topic from an
academic standpoint and from a public policy perspective -- how
nonprofits might contribute to the collective good, why they often
fail, and some of the consequences for the larger society of their
pursuit of the public good". -- Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of
Minnesota
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