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The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook
Walter W. Powell, ed. (Yale University
Press, 1987)
The Nonprofit Sector is a state-of-the-art
survey of the political, economic, cultural, legal, sociological, and
management aspects of nonprofit organizations in America and abroad. Written
by experts in a variety of fields, the book offers realistic appraisals
of current developments as well as interpretive frameworks to guide future
research and policy making. Invaluable to anyone engaged in research or
policy decisions involving nonprofit organizations, it bridges the gaps
between academic research and application, useful to both the scholar
and practitioner. It includes summary chapters by several leaders in the
field of formal research.
The
Nonprofit Sector, edited by Walter Powell, provides a comprehensive analysis
of the condition of research on the nonprofit sector by a group of scholars
in the social sciences. The topics range from theories of the nonprofit
sector to the impact of tax policies on giving to comparative studies
of the nonprofit sectors in other nations. The articles are broad based
and incisive about the research that has been done, the questions that
still need to be asked, and the intricate public policy issues that many
of the findings from this research raise. This handbook will be an enormously
valuable resource to current researchers in the field as well as to new
generations of scholars as they attempt to deal with the new terrain of
knowledge and the complex multidisciplinary research that is needed to
understand this diverse sector. Those issues and the dimensions of the
terrain are covered in depth in this extraordinary volume. It is a remarkable
achievement—a must reference work for anyone who wants to understand or
study this sector. Softcover, 464 pages, $30
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