August 20, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad
edited by David C. Hammack and Steven Heydemann
Globalization has not only drastically altered economies and culture, it has also changed how philanthropic organizations spread their influence. This volume of essays edited by David C. Hammack, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University, and Steven Heydemann, director of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University, presents case studies from all around the world of the roles nonprofit organizations play.
American approaches have been widely adopted in many countries to build charitable organizations, even in countries that are not democracies, the editors note. They add: “The accelerating diffusion of nongovernmental, philanthropic, and nonprofit activity reflects, in part, an increasing international consensus on the value of individual rights, citizen control, and organizational autonomy.”
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, Ind. 47404; (800) 842-6796; fax (812) 855-8507; iuporder@indiana.edu; http://iupress.indiana.edu; 305 pages; $45.00; ISBN 978-0-253-35303-0.
