Synopses & Reviews
Praise for previous editionsOtt and Dicke should be applauded for their outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field.”
Public Administration Review, Vol. 73, Issue 1, January/February, 2013
The editors have done the work for you if you want to understand the theories behind the nonprofit sector, this is the book to read.”
Joanne Carman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
[A] wonderful collection of readings, eminently suitable for introductory courses as well as great starting point for more advanced students and scholars. Theory and practice, national and international, and current and historical perspectives are all embraced in this valuable book.”
Dennis R. Young, Georgia State University
The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is a collection of insightful and influential classic and recent readings on the existence, forms, and functions of the nonprofit sectorthe sector that sits between the market and government. The readings encompass a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines and cover everything from Andrew Carnegies turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy to the most recent writings of current scholars and practitioners. Each of the texts ten parts opens with a framing essay by the editors that provides an overview of central themes and issues, as well as the sometimes competing points of view.
The third edition is fully revised and updated, and features new essays that analyze the nonprofit sectors place in our economy and its relationship to our government, plus additional new readings on the economic, community, and civil society theories of the nonprofit sector. The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is thorough, topical, and accessible, making it the ideal text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate nonprofit organization and management survey courses.
J. Steven Ott is Director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs and Professor of political science and public administration at the University of Utah
Lisa A. Dicke is Professor of public administration at the University of North Texas
Also Available as a Two-Book Set from Westview Press
The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector, 3rd edition
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management, 3rd edition.
Edited by J. Steven Ott and Lisa A. Dicke
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Review
Ott and Dicke should be applauded for their outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field.”
Public Administration Review, Vol. 73, Issue 1, January/February, 2013
This book has the classic readings” for those who are studying nonprofit organizations and civil society. The editors have done the work for you assembling all of the things our students should read. If you want to understand the theories behind the nonprofit sector, this is the book to read.”
Joanne Carman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
I think the general coverage and organization of the book is good, and it works for the way I teach the material. The articles/material in the 2nd edition seem to me well-chosen. [
]This version of the Ott book strikes me as a useful, down the center, approach to the subject.”
Stanley Katz, Princeton University
Synopsis
Edited by two leading nonprofit organizations scholars, The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector features classic and current readings on the nature, place and role of the nonprofit sector.
Synopsis
The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is a collection of insightful and influential classic and recent readings on the existence, forms and functions of the nonprofit sectorthe sector that sits between the market and government. The book encompasses everything from Andrew Carnegies turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy to the most recent writings by current scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. Each part in the book opens with a framing essay by the editors that provides an overview of the central themes and issues, as well as the sometimes competing points of view.
The third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to feature new essays that analyze the nonprofit sectors place in our economy and its relationship to our government, and new readings on the economic, community, and civil society theories of the nonprofit sector. The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is thorough, topical, and above all, accessible to students, making it the ideal text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate nonprofit organizations and management survey courses.
About the Author
J. Steven Ott is Director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs and professor of political science at the University of Utah. He has served as a consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations and local and state government agencies, and has chaired the Executive Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Dr. Ott has authored and edited many books, articles, and chapters on the nonprofit sector and its organizations, organization theory, organizational behavior, human resource management, administrative theory, accountability, and organizational culture.
Lisa A. Dicke is a professor of public administration at the University of North Texas. Dr. Dicke serves on the Executive Council and on the Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Her research interests include organizational leadership, as well as accountability in government and nonprofit organizations, and her articles have been published in numerous books and journals.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Kirsten Grønbjerg
Preface
Part I. Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector
1. The Idea of a Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Peter Frumkin (2002)
2. The Nonprofit Sector and Its Place in the National Economy
Katie L. Roeger, Amy S. Blackwood and Sarah L. Pettijohn (2012)
3. Defining and Theorizing the Third Sector
Olaf Corry (2011)
Part II. The Nonprofit Sector's Historical Evolution, Distinctive Values, and Contributions to Society
4. Brief History of the Nonprofit Sector
Thomas P. Holland and Roger A. Ritvo (2008)
5. The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie (1889)
6. The Impact of the Voluntary Sector on Society
David Horton Smith (1973)
Part III. Tax-Exemption and Tax-Deduction
7. Tax-Exempt Organization.
Christopher Hoyt (1998)
8. The Charitable Sectors Relationship with Government
Molly F. Sherlock and Jane G. Gravelle (2009)
Part IV. Economic Theories of the Nonprofit Sector
9. Ownership and Organizational Form: Nonprofit Firms
Henry Hansmann (2013)
10. Market Failure
Lester M. Salamon (1999)
11. Contract Failure Theory
Dennis R. Young (1998)
12. Government Failure Theory
Dennis R. Young (1998)
13. Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Lester M. Salamon (2012)
Part V. Political Theories of the Nonprofit Sector
14. The Constitution of Citizens: Political Theories of Nonprofit Organizations
Elisabeth S. Clemens (2006)
15. Citizenship and Prosocial Behavior
Marc A. Musick and John Wilson (2008)
VI. Community Theories of the Nonprofit Sector
16. To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy
Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus (1977)
17. Nonprofit Organizations and Community
Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky (1993)
18. Organizational Social Capital and Nonprofits
Jo Anne Schneider (2009)
VII. Civil Society Theories of the Nonprofit Sector
19. Bowling Alone: Thinking About Social Change in America
Robert D. Putnam (2000)
20. Civil Society as a Public Sphere
Sabine Lang (2013)
Part VIII. Theories of Giving and Philanthropy
21. Giving Well, Doing Good
Amy A. Kass (2008)
22. What is Altruism?
Alan Wolf (1998)
23. Doing Good
David H. Smith (2005)
24. Philanthropy in Communities of Color
Bradford Smith, Sylvia Shue, Jennifer Lisa Vest and Joseph Villarreal (1999)
Part IX. The Blending and Blurring of the Sectors
25. Third Party Government.
Dennis R. Young (1998)
26. The Future of the Nonprofit Sector: Its Entwining with Private Enterprise and Government.
Burton A. Weisbrod (1997)
27. From Welfare Bureaucracies to Welfare Hybrids
David Billis (2010)
Part X. The Nonprofit Sector Internationally: The Global Context
28. Government-Nonprofit Relations from an International Perspective
Lester M. Salamon (2006)
29. Organizations that Straddle the State-Society Divide: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms
Benjamin L. Read and Robert Pekkanen (2009, 2014)
30. International Assistance
Abby Stoddard (2012)